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Fernando Alonso

May 14, 2023

This article is about the Formula One driver. For other people with the same name, see Fernando Alonso (disambiguation).

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Alonso and the second or maternal family name is Díaz.

Fernando Alonso Díaz (Spanish pronunciation: [feɾˈnando aˈlonso ˈði.aθ] (listen); born 29 July 1981) is a Spanish racing driver currently competing for Aston Martin in Formula One. He won the series' World Drivers' Championship in 2005 and 2006 with Renault, and has also driven for McLaren, Ferrari, and Minardi. With Toyota, Alonso won the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice, in 2018 and 2019, and the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2018–19. He also won the 24 Hours of Daytona with Wayne Taylor Racing in 2019.

Fernando Alonso
Alonso in 2016
Born
Fernando Alonso Díaz

(1981-07-29) 29 July 1981 (age 41)
Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality Spanish
2023 teamAston Martin Aramco-Mercedes[1]
Car number14
Entries363 (360 starts)
Championships2 (2005, 2006)
Wins32
Podiums102
Career points2136
Pole positions22
Fastest laps23
First entry2001 Australian Grand Prix
First win2003 Hungarian Grand Prix
Last win2013 Spanish Grand Prix
Last entry2023 Miami Grand Prix
2022 position9th (81 pts)
FIA World Endurance Championship career
Debut season2018–19
Car number8
Former teamsToyota Gazoo Racing
Starts8
Championships1 (2018–19)
Wins5
Poles4
IndyCar Series career
2 races run over 3 years
Team(s)No. 66 (Arrow McLaren SP)
2020 position31st
Best finish21st (2017)
First race2017 Indianapolis 500 (Indianapolis)
Last race2020 Indianapolis 500 (Indianapolis)
Wins Podiums Poles
0 0 0
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years2018–2019
TeamsToyota Gazoo Racing Europe GmbH
Best finish1st (2018, 2019)
Class wins2 (2018, 2019)
Signature

Born in Oviedo, Asturias to a working-class family, Alonso began kart racing at the age of three and achieved success in local, national, and world championships. He progressed to car racing at the age of 17, winning the Euro Open by Nissan in 1999 and was fourth in the International Formula 3000 Championship of 2000. He debuted in Formula One with Minardi in 2001 before joining Renault as a test driver for 2002. Promoted to a race seat in 2003, Alonso won two drivers' championships in 2005 and 2006, becoming the youngest pole-sitter, youngest race winner, youngest world champion, and youngest two-time champion in the sport's history at the time. After finishing just one point behind eventual champion Kimi Räikkönen with McLaren in 2007, he returned to Renault for 2008 and 2009 and won two races in the former year for fifth overall. Alonso drove for Ferrari from 2010 to 2014, finishing runner-up to Sebastian Vettel in 2010, 2012, and 2013 with the title battles in 2010 and 2012 going down to the last race of the season. A second stint with McLaren from 2015 to 2018 resulted in no further success. After a two-year sabbatical, Alonso returned to Formula One in 2021 with Alpine. At the 2021 Qatar Grand Prix, Alonso scored his first podium in seven years. At the 2022 Singapore Grand Prix, he broke the record for most starts in Formula One. At the 2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, Alonso scored his 100th podium by finishing third, becoming one of six drivers in the series' history to achieve that feat.

At the time of his sabbatical, Alonso had won 32 Grands Prix, 22 pole positions, and 1,899 points from 311 starts. He is currently the only Spanish Formula One driver to have won the World Championship. Alonso won the 2001 Race of Champions Nations Cup with the rally driver Jesús Puras and the motorcyclist Rubén Xaus for Team Spain and thrice entered the Indianapolis 500 in 2017, 2019 and 2020. He has been awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Sports, the Premios Nacionales del Deporte Sportsman of the Year Award and the Gold Medal of the Royal Order of Sports Merit and has twice been inducted into the FIA Hall of Fame. Alonso runs an esports and junior racing team and is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

Early life and karting career

Alonso was born on 29 July 1981 to a working-class family in Oviedo, Asturias, Northern Spain.[2][3] He is the son of the mine shaft explosives factory mechanic and amateur kart driver José Luis Alonso,[3][4] and his wife,[4] the department store employee Ana Díaz.[2][5] Alonso has an elder sister, Lorena, who is a doctor.[5]

He was educated at the Holy Guardian Angel Primary School (Spanish: Santo Ángel de la Guarda) in Oviedo from 1985 to 1995 under the Basic Education System (Spanish: Educación General Básica).[6] Alonso attended the Institute Leopoldo Alas Clarín of San Lazaro (Spanish: Instituto Leopoldo Alas Clarín de San Lázaro) until his career in motor racing caused him to leave during his Curso de Orientación Universitaria (English: University Orientation Course) in 2000.[6] He was granted a permit to study away from school,[7] after he disobeyed his mother's orders and seldom attended classes.[8] He achieved a good academic performance by asking his classmates for notes and was unproblematic.[6][9]

 
The first go-kart driven by Alonso, which his elder sister did not want to drive

Alonso's father wanted a hobby to share with his children and built a go-kart for Lorena. She was uninterested in karting and a three-year-old Alonso received the kart.[2][4][10] The karts' pedals were modified for drive-ability,[3][7] and the local racing federation granted him a mandatory kart racing license aged five;[5] his father rejected an offer for his son to be a goalkeeper for the RC Celta de Vigo football club.[7][11] The family lacked the finances required to develop him in karts;[2] they could not purchase rain tyres and forced Alonso to adapt to a wet track on slick tyres.[12] Alonso devised three timing sectors going to school to improve himself daily.[13] His mother sewed his racing overalls and adjusted them as he grew;[14] she also ensured Alonso was academically well off.[2] His father steered the kart early on and was his accountant, counsellor, manager and mechanic.[14][15]

Aged seven, Alonso won his first kart race in Pola de Laviana.[5][16] He won the 1988 and 1989 children's junior Championship of the Asturias and Galicia, and progressed to the Cadet class in 1990.[17][18] Go-kart importer Genís Marcó was impressed by Alonso and mentored him;[17] kart track owner José Luis Echevarria told him about Alonso. Marcó found personal and sponsorship money for Alonso's family to defray financial concerns and allow him to enter European series.[5][8][19] He spoke to the six-time Karting World Champion Mike Wilson, who gave Alonso a test session at a track in Parma.[17] Marcó taught Alonso to be conservative and maintain the condition of a kart.[20]

 
The go-kart Alonso drove to win the Karting World Championship in 1996

Alonso won the 1990 Asturias and the Basque Country Cadet Championship and finished second in the 1991 Spanish Cadet National Championship.[5] The local karting federation allowed him to enter the 100cc class because he was deemed underage to drive more powerful machinery. At a Catalan Karting Championship meet in Móra d'Ebre, Marcó asked Alonso if he wanted to enter the Spanish Karting Championship.[19] Wilson mentored Alonso; he joined the Italian American Motor Engineering works team in 1993.[17] Alonso won three successive Spanish Junior National Championships from 1993 to 1995.[18]

The results allowed him to progress to the world championships.[5] Alonso was third at the 1995 Commission Internationale de Karting (CIK-FIA) Cadets' Rainbow Trophy.[17] Alonso was a mechanic to younger kart drivers to earn money.[7] He won his fourth Spanish Junior Karting Championship, the Trofeo Estival, the Marlboro Masters,[18] and the CIK-FIA 5 Continents Juniors Cup at the Karting Genk in 1996.[17] In 1997, he took the Italian and Spanish International A championships and was second in the European Championship with nine wins, the Masters Karting Paris Bercy and the Spanish Karting Championship.[5][18]

Motor racing career

Junior racing career

Aged 17, Alonso made his car racing debut in the 1999 Euro Open by Nissan with Campos Motorsport, winning the title from Manuel Gião at the final race of the season with six wins and nine pole positions.[a] For 2000, he progressed to the higher-tier International Formula 3000 Championship with the Minardi-backed Team Astromega,[10][2] after a sponsorship agreement with driver Robert Lechner fell through.[22] Alonso finished second at the Hungaroring and won the season-ending round at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps for fourth overall with 17 points.[10]

Formula One

Minardi and Renault (2001–2006)

Cesare Fiorio, the sports director, gave Alonso a test in a Formula One (F1) car at the Circuito de Jerez in December 1999, as part of the Euro Open by Nissan's organising company RPM's agreement to give its series champion an opportunity to test at a higher level.[23] He was Minardi's test and reserve driver in 2000 before joining its race team in 2001.[2] In a non-competitive car,[24] Alonso's best result of the season was a tenth-place finish in the German Grand Prix and scored no points for 23rd overall.[10]

 
Alonso at the 2003 British Grand Prix

He signed as Renault's test driver for 2002 per the orders of manager Flavio Briatore to familiarise himself with the team and improve himself for the future.[25] Alonso worked with the engineering department to improve Giancarlo Fisichella's and Jenson Button's performance,[26] and tested in Spain and the United Kingdom.[27] He drove a Jaguar in an evaluation session against test drivers André Lotterer and James Courtney at the Silverstone Circuit in May 2002.[28] Alonso was promoted to the Renault race team for 2003.[10] He went on to break the records of youngest driver to win a pole position at the season's second race, the Malaysian Grand Prix, and broke Bruce McLaren's record as the youngest F1 race winner at the Hungarian Grand Prix later in the year.[b][29] He achieved four podium finishes in 2003 and was sixth in the World Drivers' Championship with 55 points.[10]

He remained with Renault for 2004.[30] Alonso had an improved season: he finished the season-opening Australian Grand Prix in third position and took three more podium finishes that year. He took pole position for the French Grand Prix and achieved no race victories en route to fourth in the World Drivers' Championship with 59 points.[10] Alonso stayed at Renault for 2005.[2] He duelled with McLaren driver Kimi Räikkönen for the World Championship in 2005 due to regulation changes mandating teams not to change tyres during a race and engines had to last for two races before they could be changed. Alonso's car was more reliable than Räikkönen's albeit lacking in speed.[31] Alonso eclipsed Emerson Fittipaldi as the youngest World Drivers' Champion, having won seven victories, six pole positions and fourteen podium finishes for 133 points.[2][10][31]

 
Alonso won his second World Drivers' Championship at the 2006 Brazilian Grand Prix

He signed a contract extension with Renault for 2006 in April 2005.[32] Bookmakers installed Alonso as the favourite to retain the Drivers' Championship.[33] His primary competition was Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher.[2][34] Alonso won six of the first nine races and finished no lower than second to lead the championship with 84 out of a possible 90 points.[10][27] An Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA; F1's governing body)-imposed ban on Renault's tuned mass damper device to slow Alonso and an increase of development into Schumacher's Ferrari for competitiveness saw the two tied on points entering the season's penultimate round, the Japanese Grand Prix.[2][34] Alonso won the race as Schumacher retired due to an engine failure whilst leading.[34] He needed to score one point at the season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix for a second title.[35] Alonso won the championship by finishing second and was Formula 1's youngest double World Champion.[b][29]

McLaren and second stint with Renault (2007–2009)

 
Alonso en route to victory at the 2007 Malaysian Grand Prix

He and McLaren team owner Ron Dennis met secretly in Japan after Dennis talked to Alonso about driving for the team in the future and Alonso expressed interest in the idea. Both men agreed to a three-year contract for Alonso to drive for McLaren starting from 2007.[36][37] Alonso's contract with Renault expired on 31 December 2006, and he was not granted an early release for sponsorship reasons.[38] Renault allowed Alonso to make his first appearance for McLaren in a test session at the Circuito de Jerez in November 2006.[38][39] His main competitors in 2007 were his teammate Lewis Hamilton and Räikkönen at Ferrari. Alonso achieved four Grand Prix victories in Malaysia, Monaco, Europe and Italy and led the championship until Hamilton overtook him.[40] Prior to the season's final round, the Brazilian Grand Prix, he had 103 championship points to Räikkönen's 100 and Hamilton's 107, and needed to win the race and for his teammate to finish third or lower for his third title.[41] Alonso finished the event third for third overall with 109 points. He had the same number of points as Hamilton; the tie was broken on count-back as Hamilton finished second more often than Alonso.[10][42]

 
Alonso took a controversial victory at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, after his teammate, Nelson Piquet Jr., was ordered to crash deliberately.

Throughout the season, Alonso and Hamilton were involved in a number of incidents, such as the espionage scandal and the flare-up during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix when Hamilton disobeyed a team instruction, thus disadvantaging Alonso, and Alonso responded by delaying Hamilton in the pit lane.[37][43] The tensions culminated in Alonso and McLaren terminating their contract by mutual consent in November.[43][44] Alonso was forbidden from joining a team whom McLaren considered their primary challengers for 2008.[45] After rejecting offers from several teams,[46] he signed a two-year contract to rejoin Renault from 2008 because of the manufacturer's long-term commitment to F1 and on-track record.[47][48] Alonso's car lacked power early on due to an imposed moratorium in development and he scored nine points in the first seven races.[27][49] He was thereafter able to improve his performance later due to aerodynamic developments to the car's and won in Singapore and Japan;[27] the former race saw Renault order his teammate Nelson Piquet Jr. to crash deliberately and trigger the deployment of the safety car in what became known as "crashgate".[10] Alonso scored more points than any other driver in the final five races with 43.[49][50] He scored 61 points for fifth in the Drivers' Championship.[10]

Alonso was due to become a free agent for 2009 if Renault were lower than third in the Constructors' Championship.[51] After offers from Red Bull Racing and Honda,[51][52] he re-signed to Renault on a two-year contract.[53] His car proved to be noncompetitive because it lacked a dual diffuser system and outright speed.[27][54] Alonso eschewed an aerodynamic front wing mandated in an attempt to make overtaking more possible since he did not believe it would help him.[10] He scored points in eight races and achieved one podium finish: a third-place at the Singapore Grand Prix.[55] Alonso won pole position for the Hungarian Grand Prix and led the first 12 laps before he retired following an incorrectly fitted right-front wheel.[56] Alonso was ninth in the Drivers' Championship with 26 points,[10] his lowest placing since he came sixth in 2003;[55] he maintained his reputation as one of F1's best drivers.[10]

Ferrari (2010–2014)

 
Alonso won on his debut with Ferrari at the 2010 Bahrain Grand Prix.

He agreed with Ferrari president Luca Cordero di Montezemolo to drive for Ferrari in 2009, but team principal Jean Todt extended the contracts of both Felipe Massa and Räikkönen to 2010.[57] Alonso obtained a mid-2009 agreement to drive for Ferrari from 2011 on but it was moved to 2010 after Renault were investigated for race fixing in Singapore and Räikkönen was released from the team.[55][58] McLaren's Hamilton and Button and Red Bull's of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber were Alonso's main championship competition.[59] He won five races that season and entered the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix leading by eight points after being 47 behind mid-season following errors. Alonso finished runner-up to Vettel after finishing seventh thereby losing 19 points to Vettel who won the race.[60]

His 2011 season was mixed: his car was built conservatively and lacked aerodynamic grip and tyre handling in qualifying.[61] He extracted additional pace from his car to claim ten podium finishes and win the British Grand Prix after a strategy error from Red Bull. His best qualification of the year was a second at the Canadian Grand Prix and he out-qualified his teammate Massa fifteen times over the course of the season. Alonso was fourth overall with 257 points; he was in contention to finish second to eventual champion Vettel following a series of strong finishes until Webber won the season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix.[10][62]

 
Alonso at the 2012 German Grand Prix

Ahead of 2012, Alonso extended his contract with Ferrari until 2016.[63] His main competition for the title in 2012 was Vettel.[64] Wins in Malaysia, Valencia and Germany and consistent points-scoring finishes allowed him to build a 40-point lead in the Drivers' Championship. Thereafter start-line collisions, a mechanical failure and an improved performance for Vettel eliminated Alonso's points lead.[10][65][66] Alonso entered the season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix 13 points behind Vettel and needed to finish third and for Vettel not to score points for a third championship.[64] He was second and Vettel finished fourth, despite spinning on the opening lap, resigning Alonso to be runner-up for the second time in his career on 278 points.[10][66]

To begin 2013, Alonso drove an aggressively designed car allowing him to win in China and Spain and consistently scored points.[10][67] He was slower than Vettel after a change of tyre compound at the German Grand Prix and front and rear bodywork components intended to improve his car's performance were ineffective.[67][68] With 242 points, Alonso was second for the third time in his career.[10] His relationship with Ferrari cooled due to his perception the team could not construct a title-winning car.[69]

Alonso's 2014 season saw him achieve no race wins because his car was less powerful than the championship-winning Mercedes but took third in the Chinese Grand Prix and second in the Hungarian Grand Prix. Alonso fell to sixth in the Drivers' Championship with 161 points.[10][27] He qualified faster than his teammate Räikkönen 16 times by an average of more than 1⁄2 second per lap in 2014.[69]

Return to McLaren (2015–2019)

Alonso had severe disagreements with team principal Marco Mattiacci in 2014 and left Ferrari after contract negotiations to remain at the team fell through.[69] He rejoined McLaren on a three-year contract from 2015 to 2017 with no opt-out clauses.[70] An accident during a pre-season test session at Spain's Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in February 2015 saw Alonso sustain a concussion and he was replaced by reserve driver Kevin Magnussen for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.[71] He endured a difficult season: his car's Honda engine was under-powered and overall speed leaving him vulnerable to being passed.[72] Alonso scored points twice in 2015: a tenth in the British Grand Prix and a fifth in the Hungarian Grand Prix for 17th in the Drivers' Championship with 11 points.[10] He was dissatisfied with a slow pace, which became evident after multiple radio complaints that year.[73][74]

 
Alonso at the 2016 Monaco Grand Prix

Despite the unreliable and noncompetitive car,[75] Alonso remained with McLaren for 2016.[76] Injuries from a heavy crash with Esteban Gutiérrez at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix caused him to miss the Bahrain Grand Prix on medical grounds and was replaced by reserve driver Stoffel Vandoorne.[77] He qualified better than teammate Button fifteen times and scored points nine times, which included two fifth-place finishes in the Monaco Grand Prix and the United States Grand Prix. He was tenth in the Drivers' Championship with 54 points.[10]

Alonso stayed at McLaren in 2017,[78] but poor reliability affected his season, particularly during the early rounds, and his best finish was a sixth place in the Hungarian Grand Prix. After three consecutive top-ten finishes, Alonso finished 15th in the Drivers' Championship with 17 points.[10]

 
Alonso at the 2018 Austrian Grand Prix

Following contract negotiations with the McLaren CEO Zak Brown,[79] Alonso signed a multi-year extension with McLaren on 19 October 2017.[80] He finished fifth at the season-opening 2018 Australian Grand Prix and took nine top-ten finishes.[10] Alonso out-qualified his teammate Stoffel Vandoorne at every race and drove quickly and aggressively. He became increasingly annoyed with certain drivers and his commitment to F1 waned after McLaren stopped developing their car to focus on 2019.[81][82] Alonso was 11th in the Drivers' Championship with 50 points,[10] and left the sport as a driver at the end of the 2018 season, citing a perceived lack of on-track racing, the predictability of results and felt discussions away from racing about the broadcast of radio transmissions and polemics harmed the series.[83]

He remained at McLaren as a brand ambassador to aid and advise drivers and drove in select test sessions to develop their cars. Alonso drove the MCL34 during a two-day in-season post-race Bahrain test in April 2019 to develop tyres for Pirelli.[84] No further runs were planned for him and McLaren focused on their current drivers.[85] Alonso's ambassador contract with McLaren expired at the end of 2019, and was not renewed for 2020.[86]

Alpine (2021–2022)

 
Alonso at the 2021 Austrian Grand Prix, upon his return to Formula One

Alonso was signed to drive for Alpine F1 Team for the 2021 season,[87] alongside Esteban Ocon, with Renault having rebranded the team under its new name. In preparation for his F1 return, Alonso performed four testing days driving the Renault R.S.18 and was quickest in the post-2020 season young driver's test driving the Renault R.S.20 for Renault.[88][89] In his first race with Alpine at the 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix, Alonso was forced to retire after plastic debris entered his brake duct.[90] At the 2021 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix he finished in 11th after qualifying 15th,[91] with teammate Ocon finishing ahead in tenth, but both were upgraded one position after Kimi Räikkönen was penalised, giving Alonso his first points of the season.[92]

In Hungary, Alonso temporarily led the race before he made a pit stop and fell to fourth, ahead of Lewis Hamilton. Teammate Ocon credited Alonso's defence against Hamilton with enabling him to achieve his first race victory.[93] In August 2021, Alonso invoked an option to extend his contract for the 2022 season.[94] Alonso scored points in multiple races following the summer break, finishing sixth in the Netherlands,[95] eighth in Italy,[96] sixth in Russia, having run in third in Russia before being forced to pit under wet conditions,[97] and third in Qatar.[10] His third-place finish at Qatar was his first podium finish since the 2014 Hungarian Grand Prix.

For the 2022 season, Alonso remained with Alpine.[98]

Aston Martin (2023–)

Alonso joined Aston Martin on a multi-year deal in 2023 alongside Lance Stroll.[99] He joined the team because he wanted a multi-year contract extension, and Alpine was only willing to give him one more year in F1.[100]

On his Aston Martin debut at the 2023 Bahrain Grand Prix, Alonso, benefitting from the much-improved machinery of the Aston Martin AMR23, recovered from a first-lap contact with his teammate Lance Stroll without any damage and went on to finish in 3rd place, securing a podium finish and Aston's first since Sebastian Vettel's podium at the 2021 Azerbaijan Grand Prix (the German would finish second at the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix but would be disqualified due to insufficient fuel sample).[101] Despite having to serve a penalty due to his car being off-position at the starting grid, he finished in third again at the following race at the 2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix; this marked his 100th podium, making him the sixth driver to have scored 100 podiums in his career. Following the race, he was issued another ten-second penalty due to serving the first one improperly at his pit stop, dropping him to fourth behind George Russell;[102] however, the team's appeal was accepted and the second penalty was reversed, keeping his podium.[103] Alonso finished in third once again after a choatic Australian Grand Prix; the third and final restart of the session saw his car make contact with the Ferrari of Carlos Sainz Jr., causing the latter driver to receive a five-second penalty; due to this, Sainz would be classified in last place out of the finishing cars. Alonso's car was undamaged.[104] Alonso agreed with Sainz's criticisms of the penalty, stating that it was "too harsh".[105] The Aston Martins were plagued with DRS issues during qualification of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, going on to qualify eighth in the new "sprint shootout" qualification[106] and sixth for the main qualification session;[107] he would finish sixth in the sprint race,[108] and fourth in the main race.[109]

Endurance racing

Alonso made his sports car endurance racing debut at the 1999 24 Hours of Barcelona. Paired with Antonio García, Salvi Delmuns and the journalist Pedro Fermín Flores, the quartet third in the M10 class and tenth overall in a Hyundai Accent.[110] Alonso was due to enter the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans with Porsche's Le Mans Prototype 1 team before Honda blocked it.[111]

WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (2018–2019)

Alonso drove a Ligier JS P217 entered by United Autosports in the 2018 24 Hours of Daytona as preparation for the 24 Hours of Le Mans.[112] Alonso, Philip Hanson and McLaren reserve driver Lando Norris qualified 13th and finished 38th after multiple mechanical issues affected the car during the race.[113] Alonso returned to race in the 2019 24 Hours of Daytona with Wayne Taylor Racing. He shared a Cadillac DPi-V.R with Kamui Kobayashi, Renger van der Zande and Jordan Taylor. The quartet completed 593 laps to win the rain-shortened event.[114]

FIA World Endurance Championship (2018–2019)

Brown discussed an entry for the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans with Alonso and was prepared to consent to a switch to another team if certain circumstances were met.[115] Alonso and Toyota held talks and agreed to compete in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.[116] He visited Toyota's factory in Cologne for a seat fitting in a TS050 Hybrid in November 2017.[117] Toyota entered Alonso into a post-season rookie test at the Bahrain International Circuit later that month.[118] In January 2018, McLaren and Toyota reached an agreement to allow Alonso to enter the full 2018–19 FIA World Endurance Championship.[c][120] He joined Sébastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima in Toyota's No. 8 TS050 Hybrid.[119]

 
Alonso driving at the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans

Alonso drove a 2018 TS050 Hybrid in a three-day test session at the Ciudad del Motor de Aragón in February and drove with no artificial lights in a 24-hour kart race as preparation.[121][122] He, Buemi and Nakajima won the LMP1 Drivers' Championship with five victories including the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans over the eight round season, though this was enhanced by their teammates Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and José María López suffering a sensor issue while leading the 2019 6 Hours of Spa and then suffering a puncture while comfortably leading the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans with an hour remaining.[10][123][124][125][126] Alonso left the series at the end of the season.[127]

IndyCar Series

 
Alonso's car prior to the 2017 Indianapolis 500.

McLaren Honda Andretti (2017)

Before the 2017 Australian Grand Prix, Zak Brown said to Alonso they should enter the 2017 Indianapolis 500 to which Alonso suggested he was joking. The idea later re-emerged in a conservation in Los Angeles and Alonso told Brown he was happy with the idea since McLaren had won it before. He and his manager Garcia Abad met Brown and Éric Boullier in China to talk more about the plan and said he would decide the next day. Alonso told Brown he wanted to race at Indianapolis and told him it was "a good decision for everyone: a win, win for myself, for F1, the fans, everyone'."[128] Brown then spoke to the IndyCar Series chief executive officer Mark Miles and discovered that there were no Honda-powered cars.[129] Miles met the Andretti Autosport owner Michael Andretti, who got driver Stefan Wilson to agree to forego his planned entry in partnership with Michael Shank Racing and allow Alonso to drive instead.[130]

Driving the No. 29 McLaren-Honda-Andretti Dallara DW12,[131] he completed a three-stage rookie orientation programme at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on 3 May.[d][133] Alonso advanced to the Fast Nine shootout in qualifying and set the fifth-fastest four-lap average speed;[134] in the race, he led four times for a total of 27 laps before his engine failed with 21 laps to go.[134] Alonso was classified 24th.[135]

McLaren Racing (2019)

 
Alonso at the 2019 Indianapolis 500

McLaren began planning an entry for him in the 2019 IndyCar Series in August 2018 and would be supported by the series.[136] Alonso tested a 2018-specification Andretti Autosport-entered Dallara DW12-Honda at the Barber Motorsports Park on 5 September.[137] McLaren opted to enter just the 2019 Indianapolis 500 due to its focus on Formula One and collaborated with Carlin Motorsport in a logistical and technical partnership and signed an engine supply deal with Chevrolet.[138] Alonso ventured to the McLaren Technology Centre in early March 2019 for a seat fitting to become comfortable in the No. 66 Dallara IR18-Chevrolet and its brake pedal was shifted away from his feet since it is used less in IndyCar than in Formula One. Andy Brown was Alonso's race engineer and his chief mechanic was Liam Dance.[139] Alonso did not qualify after Juncos Racing's Kyle Kaiser demoted him to 34th.[e] Reasons included a dismantled spare car needed to assembled and flown from Carlin's factory after Alonso crashed in practice. An error converting from the American imperial system to the British metric system caused his car to scrape along the tarmac surface and incorrect gear ratios slowed him.[141]

Arrow McLaren SP (2020)

He entered the 2020 Indianapolis 500 with Arrow McLaren SP after an agreement with Andretti Autosports fell through.[142] Alonso had a crash during practice. He qualified 26th.[143] Alonso did manage to finish the race. He started 26th, was running 15th halfway through the race, and then ended up P21 and one lap down because of a clutch issue causing the team to manually start the car during every pit stop.[144]

Off-road racing

Alonso entered the Dakar Rally with Toyota in 2020 following a five-month testing programme in Africa, Europe and the Middle East and driving a series of races to better himself.[145][146] He raced in the Lichtenburg 400 in South Africa, the Rally du Maroc in Morocco and the Al Ula–Neom Rally in Saudi Arabia,[147] with the five-time Dakar Rally bike class winner Marc Coma his co-driver. Alonso was third at the Al Ula-Neom Rally, which was his highest finish in three preparation events.[148] With co-driver Coma, he finished the Dakar in 13th position with a best stage finish of second place.[149] A stop for repairs on the second stage and a roll on the tenth lost him several hours in the general classification.[150]

Driving style

The essence of his qualities is that he is very complete. You struggle to find a weak point, basically, in terms of high-level skills. The technical preparation in terms of driving. The ability to cope with a variety of situations. Intelligence - just [the] capacity to understand the situation while he is in or out of the car. Commitment... it is so difficult for Fernando to accept he is slower than someone else. It is very essential to his nature[,] which potentially might have created problems when he was not mature enough to manage this fundamental aspect of his identity... I have seen this with Michael [Schumacher]... This aspect of Fernando is certainly not less than Michael, but it expresses itself in different ways.

Alonso's race engineer at Ferrari, Andrea Stella, on Alonso's ability and similarities to Michael Schumacher[151]

Alonso is often regarded as one of the greatest F1 drivers in the history of the sport.[152] Journalists and fellow drivers regarded Alonso as a fast and consistent driver who can extract additional pace from a car in all weathers and on all tracks.[151][153] Fisichella said Alonso understands when to go faster and when to preserve his tyres in a race.[153] Former racing driver and Sky Sports pundit Martin Brundle described Alonso as "Senna-like in his intimate feel for where the grip is" and cited the driver's knowledge on how much grip to use for the entry to a turn.[153] He drives aggressively and uses a braking area to put a car into a corner without losing speed exiting it. This allows Alonso to keep it "on the edge of adhesion" and it has been observed during a qualifying session and the first laps of a race.[13] 1979 world champion Jody Scheckter has criticised Alonso for causing problems in teams.[clarification needed][154] This opinion is shared by Christian Horner, who ruled out signing Alonso for Red Bull, as he caused chaos in previous teams.[155]

Alonso's experience increased his awareness of events around him and competitors in a race and adjusted his situation to focus on the drivers' championship.[156] Alonso is an all-round driver who can mount an apex and correct a sliding car to go faster.[157] He is careful in finding the ideal feeling with his brakes and can apply the maximum amount of force with a fast response time. Alonso's physical strength contrasts his braking skill and regularly exceeded that limit without overdoing it on multiple conditions.[158] According to Jonathan Noble of Motorsport.com, this allows Alonso to "create a kind of natural ABS – fully exploiting tyre grip to achieve greater speeds while turning without locking the wheels."[158]

Helmet and career number

 
Alonso's Arai helmet used during the 2005 Formula One season

Alonso's helmet manufactured by Bieffe (2001), Arai (2003–2009, 2016), Schuberth (2010–2015)[159][160]Bell (2017–)[161] sports the yellow and red colours of the flag of Spain with shades of blue from the Asturias flag coupled with two silver thunderbolt arrows derived from a remote control car he received as a present in his childhood on top.[162] He changed its mainbase colour design when switching teams during his F1 career; in 2008 Alonso attached two pictures of a spade, ace and heart symbol to show he was a two-time world champion.[163]

 
The racing helmet Alonso wore at the 2013 Indian Grand Prix to commemorate him scoring 1571 career points

For three successive Monaco Grand Prix from 2011 to 2013 and at the 2011 Singapore Grand Prix, he wore a gold and white coloured helmet to replace the blue and yellow.[164][165] At the following 2013 Indian Grand Prix, Alonso sported a white helmet to celebrate his total number of career points scored up to the preceding Japanese Grand Prix of 1571 and with the words "F1 points World Record" accompanied with a thank you message in English, French and Italian.[166]

His final event for Ferrari at the 2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix saw him wear a helmet with a picture depicting a pit stop in that year in the colour red, signature of various team members and the flag of Italy in the centre.[167] At the 2017 Indianapolis 500 and the 2017 United States Grand Prix, Alonso sported a black helmet with red, yellow and blue stripes around it and his race number.[168][169] He revised the livery for the 2018 24 Hours of Daytona to white instead of black and had no stripes around the front. The back had the layout of the Daytona International Speedway and continued to have his usual blue, red and yellow colours.[168]

In 2018 Alonso changed its front livery to be predominantly blue with the back top lighter blue and the rear red and yellow.[170] His helmet for the 2018 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was divided equally between the flag of Spain on the right with a blue-checkered pattern around its side. The yellow on that area was replaced by gold between two horizontal stripes in red and a thick vertical strip was added with a list of Alonso's 32 F1 race victories.[171]

For the 2014 season, the FIA created a new regulation allowing drivers to select specific car numbers for use throughout their F1 career. Alonso requested the number 14 for it has been his lucky number since his world karting championship victory in a kart with number 14, at the age of 14, on 14 July 1996.[172]

Image and impact

Nate Saunders of ESPN writes that Alonso "is one of the most eloquent speakers in F1 and one of the best at interacting with the media".[173] He occasionally uses press conferences with the press to cultivate particular narratives of a story, convey himself as controlling the F1 driver market or as the one with knowledge of facts of a situation.[173] Alonso dislikes fame and prefers a private life,[174] with Chris Jenkins of USA Today describing him as shy.[3] He has been noted for refraining from expensive habits and possessions.[175]

 
Alonso at the 2015 Honda Racing Thanks Day

Alonso's public persona has been noted as being different from his private personality.[176] Fellow Spanish driver Carlos Sainz Jr. claimed "there are two Fernandos", alluding to Alonso's defensive nature when criticised because of his shyness, compared to his sense of humour, generosity and kind-nature when not racing.[176] According to the Autosport journalist Ben Anderson, Alonso's success in F1 required him to behave egotistically and selfishly and to have a self-confidence, in order to cope with the consequences of "burst[ing] egotistical bubbles" to improve himself.[176] Alonso acknowledged the façade and told Anderson "I know who I am outside of F1, but that remains a question mark for everybody because I like to separate my personal life from my professional life" and his different personality traits in public and private.[176] Alonso made a voice cameo appearance as an anthropomorphic version of himself in the Spanish dub of Cars 2 (2011),[177] and a voice command assistant in the Spanish dub of Cars 3 (2017).[178]

Journalist Nigel Roebuck calls Alonso "the first world-class racing driver to come out of Spain",[174] and is credited for popularising F1 in the country, where it was once considered a fringe sport and a lesser known form of motorsport than motorcycling and rallying.[179] He was Personality Media's favourite male athlete with a 99 per cent recognition rating amongst the Spanish public in 2015;[180] in the latter part of his F1 career, Alonso was within the top two most popular drivers in the Grand Prix Drivers' Association fan surveys of 2010, 2015 and 2017.[181]

The Fernando Alonso Sports Complex in Oviedo was opened in June 2015 and features a CIK-FIA compliant karting track featuring 29 layouts. A museum dedicated to his racing career, the 'Museo y Circuito Fernando Alonso', opened in the same year, featuring Alonso's race cars, helmets, overalls, and memorabilia.[182]

Endorsements and philanthropy

 
Alonso wearing a Kimoa hat at a NASCAR media tour in 2018

Alonso has done business with Banco Santander, Cajastur, TAG Heuer, Europcar, Silestone,[183] Liberbank,[184] ING,[185] Chandon,[186] Adidas,[187] and Bang & Olufsen.[188] He is the founder and brand ambassador of the fashion retailer Kimoa,[189] and intended to establish the Fernando Alonso Cycling Team to compete in UCI events in 2015 before the project failed to materialise.[f][190] As a result of Alonso's endorsement money and F1 salary, he has been listed as one of the world's highest-paid athletes by Forbes every year from 2012 to 2018.[191] The magazine named him motorsport's top-earning driver from June 2012 to June 2013,[192] one of 2016's top earning international stars,[193] and one of 2017's highest-paid international and European celebrities.[194][195] Alonso also featured on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list in 2008 and 2017.[196] In 2020, Alonso was sponsored by Ruoff Mortgage for his Indianapolis 500 attempt.[197]

In November 2017 Alonso established the FA Racing G2 Logitech G eSports racing team of which he is the team principal and competes in virtual online racing championships on multiple platforms.[198] The team dissolved in 2018 and launched another in partnership with FA Racing and Veloce Esports in March 2019.[199] Alonso's team has also competed in the F4 Spanish Championship, Formula Renault Eurocup and karting.[200] He is an investor and board member of the eSports multi-racing platform Motorsport Games.[201]

The UNICEF Spanish Committee named Alonso a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in February 2005 to promote and defend children's rights and awareness of UNICEF.[202] Alonso promoted India's efforts to eradicate polio in 2011 and handwashing with soap to school children in 2012,[203][204] whilst he also supported UNICEF's anti-cyberbullying campaign in November 2017.[205] Alonso founded the Fundación Fernando Alonso (transl. Fernando Alonso Foundation) in 2007 to promote motor racing and road safety education.[164]

Awards

Alonso received the 2003 Autosport Gregor Grant Award for winning the 2003 Hungarian Grand Prix.[206] He also won the Princess Cristina National Sports Award for sporting newcomer in that year.[207] Alonso was named the Lorenzo Bandini Trophy's recipient in April 2005.[208] From October 2005 to May 2006 he received the Prince of Asturias Award for Sports, the Premios Nacionales del Deporte Sportsman of the Year Award and the Gold Medal of the Royal Order of Sports Merit for winning the 2005 F1 World Championship.[209]

He was named the 2006 Autosport International Racing Driver of the Year.[210] Alonso was voted the Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year for his performance in the 2017 Indianapolis 500.[135] He was inducted into the FIA Hall of Fame in 2017 for being a F1 World Champion and again as a FIA World Endurance Champion in 2019.[211][212] This made Alonso the first driver to have been inducted into the FIA Hall of Fame twice.[212]

Personal life

From November 2006 to December 2011, Alonso was married to Raquel del Rosario, the lead singer of the Spanish pop band El Sueño de Morfeo.[213] He was engaged to Spanish television presenter Lara Álvarez from 2015 to 2016.[214] Alonso dated Italian model Linda Morselli from 2016 to 2021.[215][216]

Alonso supports the Real Madrid and Real Oviedo football teams,[7] and is a cycling enthusiast.[217] He is 174 cm (5'9") tall,[218] and speaks English, French, Italian and Spanish.[219] His personal garage includes such cars as the McLaren P1, Ferrari 458 Italia, Nissan GT-R, and Honda NSX.[220][221][222]

Karting record

Karting career summary

Season Series Position
1991 Spanish Championship — Cadet 2nd
1993 Spanish Championship — Junior 1st
1994 Torneo delle Industrie — 100 Junior 28th
Spanish Championship — Junior 1st
1995 Trofeo Andrea Margutti — 100 Junior 19th
Rainbow Trophy — Cadets 3rd
Spanish Championship — Junior 1st
1996 Torneo delle Industrie — 100 Nazionale 28th
Five Continents Cup — Junior A 1st
Trofeo Andrea Margutti — 100 Junior 15th
1997 Trofeo Andrea Margutti — ICA 4th
1998 Trofeo Andrea Margutti — Formula A 7th
European Championship — Formula A 2nd
World Championship — Formula A 26th
1999 Trofeo Andrea Margutti — Formula A 5th
European Championship — Formula Super A 18th
World Championship — Formula Super A 19th
Source:[223]

Racing record

Racing career summary

Season Series Team Races Wins Poles FLaps Podiums Points Position
1999 Euro Open by Nissan Campos Motorsport 15 6 6 5 8 164 1st
2000 International Formula 3000 Team Astromega 9 1 1 2 2 17 4th
2001 Formula One European Minardi F1 17 0 0 0 0 0 23rd
2002 Formula One Mild Seven Renault F1 Team Test driver
2003 Formula One Mild Seven Renault F1 Team 16 1 2 1 4 55 6th
2004 Formula One Mild Seven Renault F1 Team 18 0 1 0 4 59 4th
2005 Formula One Mild Seven Renault F1 Team 19 7 6 2 15 133 1st
2006 Formula One Mild Seven Renault F1 Team 18 7 6 5 14 134 1st
2007 Formula One Vodafone McLaren Mercedes 17 4 2 3 12 109 3rd
2008 Formula One ING Renault F1 Team 18 2 0 0 3 61 5th
2009 Formula One ING Renault F1 Team 17 0 1 2 1 26 9th
2010 Formula One Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro 19 5 2 5 10 252 2nd
2011 Formula One Scuderia Ferrari 19 1 0 1 10 257 4th
2012 Formula One Scuderia Ferrari 20 3 2 0 13 278 2nd
2013 Formula One Scuderia Ferrari 19 2 0 2 9 242 2nd
2014 Formula One Scuderia Ferrari 19 0 0 0 2 161 6th
2015 Formula One McLaren Honda 18 0 0 0 0 11 17th
2016 Formula One McLaren Honda 20 0 0 1 0 54 10th
2017 Formula One McLaren Honda 19 0 0 1 0 17 15th
IndyCar Series McLaren-Honda-Andretti 1 0 0 0 0 47 29th
2018 Formula One McLaren F1 Team 21 0 0 0 0 50 11th
24 Hours of Le Mans Toyota Gazoo Racing 1 1 1 0 1 N/A 1st
WeatherTech SportsCar Championship United Autosports 1 0 0 0 0 18 58th
2018–19 FIA World Endurance Championship Toyota Gazoo Racing 8 5 4 0 7 198 1st
2019 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Konica Minolta Cadillac 1 1 0 0 1 35 27th
24 Hours of Le Mans Toyota Gazoo Racing 1 1 0 0 1 N/A 1st
IndyCar Series McLaren Racing 0 0 0 0 0 0 NC
2020 Dakar Rally Toyota Gazoo Racing 1 0 N/A 0 N/A 13th
IndyCar Series Arrow McLaren SP 1 0 0 0 0 18 31st
2021 Formula One Alpine F1 Team 22 0 0 0 1 81 10th
2022 Formula One BWT Alpine F1 Team 22 0 0 0 0 81 9th
2023 Formula One Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant F1 Team 5 0 0 0 4 75* 3rd*
Source:[10]

* Season still in progress.

Complete Euro Open by Nissan results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 DC Points
1999 Campos Motorsport ALB
1
Ret 		ALB
2
1 		JER
1
Ret 		JER
2
DNS 		JAR
1
Ret 		JAR
2
1 		MNZ
1
Ret 		MNZ
2
Ret 		JAR
1
2 		JAR
2
Ret 		DON
1
1 		DON
2
1 		CAT
1
7 		CAT
2
1 		VAL
1
2 		VAL
2
1 		1st 164
Source:[224]

Complete International Formula 3000 results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 DC Points
2000 Team Astromega IMO
9 		SIL
EX 		CAT
15 		NÜR
Ret 		MON
8 		MAG
Ret 		A1R
6 		HOC
Ret 		HUN
2 		SPA
1 		4th 17
Source:[225]

Complete Formula One results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap; small number indicates the finishing position)

Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 WDC Points
2001 European Minardi F1 Minardi PS01 European (Cosworth) 3.0 V10 AUS
12 		MAL
13 		BRA
Ret 		SMR
Ret 		ESP
13 		AUT
Ret 		MON
Ret 		CAN
Ret 		EUR
14 		FRA
17†		 GBR
16 		GER
10 		HUN
Ret 		23rd 0
Minardi PS01B BEL
DNS 		ITA
13 		USA
Ret 		JPN
11
2003 Mild Seven Renault F1 Team Renault R23 Renault RS23 3.0 V10 AUS
7 		MAL
3 		BRA
3 		SMR
6 		ESP
2 		AUT
Ret 		MON
5 		CAN
4 		EUR
4 		FRA
Ret 		6th 55
Renault R23B GBR
Ret 		GER
4 		HUN
1 		ITA
8 		USA
Ret 		JPN
Ret
2004 Mild Seven Renault F1 Team Renault R24 Renault RS24 3.0 V10 AUS
3 		MAL
7 		BHR
6 		SMR
4 		ESP
4 		MON
Ret 		EUR
5 		CAN
Ret 		USA
Ret 		FRA
2 		GBR
10 		GER
3 		HUN
3 		BEL
Ret 		ITA
Ret 		CHN
4 		JPN
5 		BRA
4 		4th 59
2005 Mild Seven Renault F1 Team Renault R25 Renault RS25 3.0 V10 AUS
3 		MAL
1 		BHR
1 		SMR
1 		ESP
2 		MON
4 		EUR
1 		CAN
Ret 		USA
DNS 		FRA
1 		GBR
2 		GER
1 		HUN
11 		TUR
2 		ITA
2 		BEL
2 		BRA
3 		JPN
3 		CHN
1 		1st 133
2006 Mild Seven Renault F1 Team Renault R26 Renault RS26 2.4 V8 BHR
1 		MAL
2 		AUS
1 		SMR
2 		EUR
2 		ESP
1 		MON
1 		GBR
1 		CAN
1 		USA
5 		FRA
2 		GER
5 		HUN
Ret 		TUR
2 		ITA
Ret 		CHN
2 		JPN
1 		BRA
2 		1st 134
2007 Vodafone McLaren Mercedes McLaren MP4-22 Mercedes FO 108T 2.4 V8 AUS
2 		MAL
1 		BHR
5 		ESP
3 		MON
1 		CAN
7 		USA
2 		FRA
7 		GBR
2 		EUR
1 		HUN
4 		TUR
3 		ITA
1 		BEL
3 		JPN
Ret 		CHN
2 		BRA
3 		3rd 109
2008 ING Renault F1 Team Renault R28 Renault RS27 2.4 V8 AUS
4 		MAL
8 		BHR
10 		ESP
Ret 		TUR
6 		MON
10 		CAN
Ret 		FRA
8 		GBR
6 		GER
11 		HUN
4 		EUR
Ret 		BEL
4 		ITA
4 		SIN
1 		JPN
1 		CHN
4 		BRA
2 		5th 61
2009 ING Renault F1 Team Renault R29 Renault RS27 2.4 V8 AUS
5 		MAL
11 		CHN
9 		BHR
8 		ESP
5 		MON
7 		TUR
10 		GBR
14 		GER
7 		HUN
Ret 		EUR
6 		BEL
Ret 		ITA
5 		9th 26
Renault F1 Team SIN
3 		JPN
10 		BRA
Ret 		ABU
14
2010 Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro Ferrari F10 Ferrari 056 2.4 V8 BHR
1 		AUS
4 		MAL
13†		 CHN
4 		ESP
2 		MON
6 		TUR
8 		CAN
3 		EUR
8 		GBR
14 		GER
1 		HUN
2 		BEL
Ret 		ITA
1 		SIN
1 		JPN
3 		KOR
1 		BRA
3 		ABU
7 		2nd 252
2011 Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro Ferrari 150º Italia Ferrari 056 2.4 V8 AUS
4 		MAL
6 		CHN
7 		TUR
3 		ESP
5 		MON
2 		CAN
Ret 		EUR
2 		4th 257
Scuderia Ferrari GBR
1 		GER
2 		HUN
3 		BEL
4 		ITA
3 		SIN
4 		JPN
2 		KOR
5 		IND
3 		ABU
2 		BRA
4
2012 Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari F2012 Ferrari 056 2.4 V8 AUS
5 		MAL
1 		CHN
9 		BHR
7 		ESP
2 		MON
3 		CAN
5 		EUR
1 		GBR
2 		GER
1 		HUN
5 		BEL
Ret 		ITA
3 		SIN
3 		JPN
Ret 		KOR
3 		IND
2 		ABU
2 		USA
3 		BRA
2 		2nd 278
2013 Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari F138 Ferrari 056 2.4 V8 AUS
2 		MAL
Ret 		CHN
1 		BHR
8 		ESP
1 		MON
7 		CAN
2 		GBR
3 		GER
4 		HUN
5 		BEL
2 		ITA
2 		SIN
2 		KOR
6 		JPN
4 		IND
11 		ABU
5 		USA
5 		BRA
3 		2nd 242
2014 Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari F14 T Ferrari 059/3 1.6 V6 t AUS
4 		MAL
4 		BHR
9 		CHN
3 		ESP
6 		MON
4 		CAN
6 		AUT
5 		GBR
6 		GER
5 		HUN
2 		BEL
7 		ITA
Ret 		SIN
4 		JPN
Ret 		RUS
6 		USA
6 		BRA
6 		ABU
9 		6th 161
2015 McLaren Honda McLaren MP4-30 Honda RA615H 1.6 V6 t AUS MAL
Ret 		CHN
12 		BHR
11 		ESP
Ret 		MON
Ret 		CAN
Ret 		AUT
Ret 		GBR
10 		HUN
5 		BEL
13 		ITA
18†		 SIN
Ret 		JPN
11 		RUS
11 		USA
11 		MEX
Ret 		BRA
15 		ABU
17 		17th 11
2016 McLaren Honda McLaren MP4-31 Honda RA616H 1.6 V6 t AUS
Ret 		BHR CHN
12 		RUS
6 		ESP
Ret 		MON
5 		CAN
11 		EUR
Ret 		AUT
18†		 GBR
13 		HUN
7 		GER
12 		BEL
7 		ITA
14 		SIN
7 		MAL
7 		JPN
16 		USA
5 		MEX
13 		BRA
10 		ABU
10 		10th 54
2017 McLaren Honda McLaren MCL32 Honda RA617H 1.6 V6 t AUS
Ret 		CHN
Ret 		BHR
14†		 RUS
DNS 		ESP
12 		MON CAN
16†		 AZE
9 		AUT
Ret 		GBR
Ret 		HUN
6 		BEL
Ret 		ITA
17†		 SIN
Ret 		MAL
11 		JPN
11 		USA
Ret 		MEX
10 		BRA
8 		ABU
9 		15th 17
2018 McLaren F1 Team McLaren MCL33 Renault R.E.18 1.6 V6 t AUS
5 		BHR
7 		CHN
7 		AZE
7 		ESP
8 		MON
Ret 		CAN
Ret 		FRA
16†		 AUT
8 		GBR
8 		GER
16†		 HUN
8 		BEL
Ret 		ITA
Ret 		SIN
7 		RUS
14 		JPN
14 		USA
Ret 		MEX
Ret 		BRA
17 		ABU
11 		11th 50
2021 Alpine F1 Team Alpine A521 Renault E-Tech 20B 1.6 V6 t BHR
Ret 		EMI
10 		POR
8 		ESP
17 		MON
13 		AZE
6 		FRA
8 		STY
9 		AUT
10 		GBR
7 		HUN
4 		BEL
11 		NED
6 		ITA
8 		RUS
6 		TUR
16 		USA
Ret 		MXC
9 		SAP
9 		QAT
3 		SAU
13 		ABU
8 		10th 81
2022 BWT Alpine F1 Team Alpine A522 Renault E-Tech 22 1.6 V6 t BHR
9 		SAU
Ret 		AUS
17 		EMI
Ret 		MIA
11 		ESP
9 		MON
7 		AZE
7 		CAN
9 		GBR
5 		AUT
10 		FRA
6 		HUN
8 		BEL
5 		NED
6 		ITA
Ret 		SIN
Ret 		JPN
7 		USA
7 		MXC
19  		SAP
5 		ABU
Ret 		9th 81
2023 Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant F1 Team Aston Martin AMR23 Mercedes F1 M14 E Performance 1.6 V6 t BHR
3 		SAU
3 		AUS
3 		AZE
46 		MIA
3 		EMI
 MON
 ESP
 CAN
 AUT
 GBR
 HUN
 BEL
 NED
 ITA
 SIN
 JPN
 QAT
 USA
 MXC
 SAP
 LVG
 ABU
 3rd* 75*
Source:[226]

  Did not finish, but was classified as he had completed more than 90% of the race distance.
* Season still in progress.

American open-wheel racing results

IndyCar Series

Year Team Chassis No. Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Rank Points
2017 McLaren-Honda-Andretti Dallara DW12 29 Honda STP LBH ALA PHX IMS INDY
24 		DET DET TXS RDA IOW TOR MDO POC GTW WGL SNM 29th 47
2019 McLaren Racing 66 Chevrolet STP COA ALA LBH IMS INDY
DNQ 		DET DET TXS RDA TOR IOW MDO POC GTW POR LAG – 0
2020 Arrow McLaren SP TXS IMS ROA ROA IOW IOW INDY
21 		GTW GTW MDO MDO IMS IMS STP 31st 18
Source:[227]

Indianapolis 500

IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team Class Make Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rank Points
2018 United Autosports P Ligier JS P217 Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 DAY
13 		SEB LBH MDO DET WGL MOS ELK LGA PET 58th 18
2019 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi Cadillac DPi-V.R Cadillac 5.5 L V8 DAY
1 		SEB LBH MDO DET WGL MOS ELK LGA PET 27th 35
Source:[228][229]

24 Hours of Daytona

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Entrant Class Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Rank Points
2018–19 Toyota Gazoo Racing LMP1 Toyota TS050 Hybrid Toyota 2.4 L Turbo V6 (Hybrid) SPA
1 		LMS
1 		SIL
DSQ 		FUJ
2 		SHA
2 		SEB
1 		SPA
1 		LMS
1 		1st 198
Source:[229][230]

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Dakar Rally results

Year Class Vehicle Position Stages won
2020 Car   Toyota 13th 0
Source:[149]

Records held

He broke the record for the longest distance covered in F1 with a total of 92,643 Kilometers driven after his fifth-place finish in the 2022 British Grand Prix.[231]

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ^ Gião filed an appeal under the belief Alonso had passed him under yellow flag conditions. The appeal was rejected because Gião had filed it through his manager and not his team; officials subsequently confirmed Alonso's championship win.[21]
  2. ^ a b Sebastian Vettel is the current holder of the youngest Formula One pole position starter and youngest one and two-time world champion.[29]
  3. ^ The owners of the Fuji Speedway, which organised the 6 Hours of Fuji, had a request granted for its race to be moved back by a week to allow Alonso to compete in the event and avoid a date clash with the 2018 United States Grand Prix.[119]
  4. ^ More than two million watched a livestream of the rookie orientation programme on social media.[132]
  5. ^ McLaren offered to purchase the Arrow Schmidt Peterson car of Oriol Servià to allow Alonso to enter the race and meet sponsorship obligations since the two teams were in a partnership. Alonso was against replacing a driver who had qualified and McLaren opted against doing so.[140]
  6. ^ The leaked Paradise Papers stated Alonso's manager Luis García Abad founded and constituted the Revolution Holdings Limited for the team on the Mediterranean island of Malta. Documents released to the Spanish media revealed the Directorate-General for the Treasury knew about its existence and accounts.[190]

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This article is about the Formula One driver For other people with the same name see Fernando Alonso disambiguation In this Spanish name the first or paternal surname is Alonso and the second or maternal family name is Diaz Fernando Alonso Diaz Spanish pronunciation feɾˈnando aˈlonso ˈdi a8 listen born 29 July 1981 is a Spanish racing driver currently competing for Aston Martin in Formula One He won the series World Drivers Championship in 2005 and 2006 with Renault and has also driven for McLaren Ferrari and Minardi With Toyota Alonso won the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice in 2018 and 2019 and the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2018 19 He also won the 24 Hours of Daytona with Wayne Taylor Racing in 2019 Fernando AlonsoAlonso in 2016BornFernando Alonso Diaz 1981 07 29 29 July 1981 age 41 Oviedo Asturias SpainFormula One World Championship careerNationalitySpanish2023 teamAston Martin Aramco Mercedes 1 Car number14Entries363 360 starts Championships2 2005 2006 Wins32Podiums102Career points2136Pole positions22Fastest laps23First entry2001 Australian Grand PrixFirst win2003 Hungarian Grand PrixLast win2013 Spanish Grand PrixLast entry2023 Miami Grand Prix2022 position9th 81 pts FIA World Endurance Championship careerDebut season2018 19Car number8Former teamsToyota Gazoo RacingStarts8Championships1 2018 19 Wins5Poles4IndyCar Series career2 races run over 3 yearsTeam s No 66 Arrow McLaren SP 2020 position31stBest finish21st 2017 First race2017 Indianapolis 500 Indianapolis Last race2020 Indianapolis 500 Indianapolis Wins Podiums Poles0 0 024 Hours of Le Mans careerYears2018 2019TeamsToyota Gazoo Racing Europe GmbHBest finish1st 2018 2019 Class wins2 2018 2019 SignatureBorn in Oviedo Asturias to a working class family Alonso began kart racing at the age of three and achieved success in local national and world championships He progressed to car racing at the age of 17 winning the Euro Open by Nissan in 1999 and was fourth in the International Formula 3000 Championship of 2000 He debuted in Formula One with Minardi in 2001 before joining Renault as a test driver for 2002 Promoted to a race seat in 2003 Alonso won two drivers championships in 2005 and 2006 becoming the youngest pole sitter youngest race winner youngest world champion and youngest two time champion in the sport s history at the time After finishing just one point behind eventual champion Kimi Raikkonen with McLaren in 2007 he returned to Renault for 2008 and 2009 and won two races in the former year for fifth overall Alonso drove for Ferrari from 2010 to 2014 finishing runner up to Sebastian Vettel in 2010 2012 and 2013 with the title battles in 2010 and 2012 going down to the last race of the season A second stint with McLaren from 2015 to 2018 resulted in no further success After a two year sabbatical Alonso returned to Formula One in 2021 with Alpine At the 2021 Qatar Grand Prix Alonso scored his first podium in seven years At the 2022 Singapore Grand Prix he broke the record for most starts in Formula One At the 2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix Alonso scored his 100th podium by finishing third becoming one of six drivers in the series history to achieve that feat At the time of his sabbatical Alonso had won 32 Grands Prix 22 pole positions and 1 899 points from 311 starts He is currently the only Spanish Formula One driver to have won the World Championship Alonso won the 2001 Race of Champions Nations Cup with the rally driver Jesus Puras and the motorcyclist Ruben Xaus for Team Spain and thrice entered the Indianapolis 500 in 2017 2019 and 2020 He has been awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Sports the Premios Nacionales del Deporte Sportsman of the Year Award and the Gold Medal of the Royal Order of Sports Merit and has twice been inducted into the FIA Hall of Fame Alonso runs an esports and junior racing team and is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Contents 1 Early life and karting career 2 Motor racing career 2 1 Junior racing career 2 2 Formula One 2 2 1 Minardi and Renault 2001 2006 2 2 2 McLaren and second stint with Renault 2007 2009 2 2 3 Ferrari 2010 2014 2 2 4 Return to McLaren 2015 2019 2 2 5 Alpine 2021 2022 2 2 6 Aston Martin 2023 2 3 Endurance racing 2 3 1 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship 2018 2019 2 3 2 FIA World Endurance Championship 2018 2019 2 4 IndyCar Series 2 4 1 McLaren Honda Andretti 2017 2 4 2 McLaren Racing 2019 2 4 3 Arrow McLaren SP 2020 2 5 Off road racing 3 Driving style 4 Helmet and career number 5 Image and impact 5 1 Endorsements and philanthropy 5 2 Awards 6 Personal life 7 Karting record 7 1 Karting career summary 8 Racing record 8 1 Racing career summary 8 2 Complete Euro Open by Nissan results 8 3 Complete International Formula 3000 results 8 4 Complete Formula One results 8 5 American open wheel racing results 8 5 1 IndyCar Series 8 5 2 Indianapolis 500 8 6 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship 8 6 1 24 Hours of Daytona 8 7 Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results 8 8 24 Hours of Le Mans results 8 9 Dakar Rally results 8 10 Records held 9 Notes and references 9 1 Notes 9 2 References 10 External linksEarly life and karting careerAlonso was born on 29 July 1981 to a working class family in Oviedo Asturias Northern Spain 2 3 He is the son of the mine shaft explosives factory mechanic and amateur kart driver Jose Luis Alonso 3 4 and his wife 4 the department store employee Ana Diaz 2 5 Alonso has an elder sister Lorena who is a doctor 5 He was educated at the Holy Guardian Angel Primary School Spanish Santo Angel de la Guarda in Oviedo from 1985 to 1995 under the Basic Education System Spanish Educacion General Basica 6 Alonso attended the Institute Leopoldo Alas Clarin of San Lazaro Spanish Instituto Leopoldo Alas Clarin de San Lazaro until his career in motor racing caused him to leave during his Curso de Orientacion Universitaria English University Orientation Course in 2000 6 He was granted a permit to study away from school 7 after he disobeyed his mother s orders and seldom attended classes 8 He achieved a good academic performance by asking his classmates for notes and was unproblematic 6 9 The first go kart driven by Alonso which his elder sister did not want to drive Alonso s father wanted a hobby to share with his children and built a go kart for Lorena She was uninterested in karting and a three year old Alonso received the kart 2 4 10 The karts pedals were modified for drive ability 3 7 and the local racing federation granted him a mandatory kart racing license aged five 5 his father rejected an offer for his son to be a goalkeeper for the RC Celta de Vigo football club 7 11 The family lacked the finances required to develop him in karts 2 they could not purchase rain tyres and forced Alonso to adapt to a wet track on slick tyres 12 Alonso devised three timing sectors going to school to improve himself daily 13 His mother sewed his racing overalls and adjusted them as he grew 14 she also ensured Alonso was academically well off 2 His father steered the kart early on and was his accountant counsellor manager and mechanic 14 15 Aged seven Alonso won his first kart race in Pola de Laviana 5 16 He won the 1988 and 1989 children s junior Championship of the Asturias and Galicia and progressed to the Cadet class in 1990 17 18 Go kart importer Genis Marco was impressed by Alonso and mentored him 17 kart track owner Jose Luis Echevarria told him about Alonso Marco found personal and sponsorship money for Alonso s family to defray financial concerns and allow him to enter European series 5 8 19 He spoke to the six time Karting World Champion Mike Wilson who gave Alonso a test session at a track in Parma 17 Marco taught Alonso to be conservative and maintain the condition of a kart 20 The go kart Alonso drove to win the Karting World Championship in 1996 Alonso won the 1990 Asturias and the Basque Country Cadet Championship and finished second in the 1991 Spanish Cadet National Championship 5 The local karting federation allowed him to enter the 100cc class because he was deemed underage to drive more powerful machinery At a Catalan Karting Championship meet in Mora d Ebre Marco asked Alonso if he wanted to enter the Spanish Karting Championship 19 Wilson mentored Alonso he joined the Italian American Motor Engineering works team in 1993 17 Alonso won three successive Spanish Junior National Championships from 1993 to 1995 18 The results allowed him to progress to the world championships 5 Alonso was third at the 1995 Commission Internationale de Karting CIK FIA Cadets Rainbow Trophy 17 Alonso was a mechanic to younger kart drivers to earn money 7 He won his fourth Spanish Junior Karting Championship the Trofeo Estival the Marlboro Masters 18 and the CIK FIA 5 Continents Juniors Cup at the Karting Genk in 1996 17 In 1997 he took the Italian and Spanish International A championships and was second in the European Championship with nine wins the Masters Karting Paris Bercy and the Spanish Karting Championship 5 18 Motor racing careerJunior racing career The Lola B99 50 Alonso drove in the 2000 International Formula 3000 Championship Aged 17 Alonso made his car racing debut in the 1999 Euro Open by Nissan with Campos Motorsport winning the title from Manuel Giao at the final race of the season with six wins and nine pole positions a For 2000 he progressed to the higher tier International Formula 3000 Championship with the Minardi backed Team Astromega 10 2 after a sponsorship agreement with driver Robert Lechner fell through 22 Alonso finished second at the Hungaroring and won the season ending round at Circuit de Spa Francorchamps for fourth overall with 17 points 10 Formula One Minardi and Renault 2001 2006 Cesare Fiorio the sports director gave Alonso a test in a Formula One F1 car at the Circuito de Jerez in December 1999 as part of the Euro Open by Nissan s organising company RPM s agreement to give its series champion an opportunity to test at a higher level 23 He was Minardi s test and reserve driver in 2000 before joining its race team in 2001 2 In a non competitive car 24 Alonso s best result of the season was a tenth place finish in the German Grand Prix and scored no points for 23rd overall 10 Alonso at the 2003 British Grand Prix He signed as Renault s test driver for 2002 per the orders of manager Flavio Briatore to familiarise himself with the team and improve himself for the future 25 Alonso worked with the engineering department to improve Giancarlo Fisichella s and Jenson Button s performance 26 and tested in Spain and the United Kingdom 27 He drove a Jaguar in an evaluation session against test drivers Andre Lotterer and James Courtney at the Silverstone Circuit in May 2002 28 Alonso was promoted to the Renault race team for 2003 10 He went on to break the records of youngest driver to win a pole position at the season s second race the Malaysian Grand Prix and broke Bruce McLaren s record as the youngest F1 race winner at the Hungarian Grand Prix later in the year b 29 He achieved four podium finishes in 2003 and was sixth in the World Drivers Championship with 55 points 10 He remained with Renault for 2004 30 Alonso had an improved season he finished the season opening Australian Grand Prix in third position and took three more podium finishes that year He took pole position for the French Grand Prix and achieved no race victories en route to fourth in the World Drivers Championship with 59 points 10 Alonso stayed at Renault for 2005 2 He duelled with McLaren driver Kimi Raikkonen for the World Championship in 2005 due to regulation changes mandating teams not to change tyres during a race and engines had to last for two races before they could be changed Alonso s car was more reliable than Raikkonen s albeit lacking in speed 31 Alonso eclipsed Emerson Fittipaldi as the youngest World Drivers Champion having won seven victories six pole positions and fourteen podium finishes for 133 points 2 10 31 Alonso won his second World Drivers Championship at the 2006 Brazilian Grand PrixHe signed a contract extension with Renault for 2006 in April 2005 32 Bookmakers installed Alonso as the favourite to retain the Drivers Championship 33 His primary competition was Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher 2 34 Alonso won six of the first nine races and finished no lower than second to lead the championship with 84 out of a possible 90 points 10 27 An Federation Internationale de l Automobile FIA F1 s governing body imposed ban on Renault s tuned mass damper device to slow Alonso and an increase of development into Schumacher s Ferrari for competitiveness saw the two tied on points entering the season s penultimate round the Japanese Grand Prix 2 34 Alonso won the race as Schumacher retired due to an engine failure whilst leading 34 He needed to score one point at the season ending Brazilian Grand Prix for a second title 35 Alonso won the championship by finishing second and was Formula 1 s youngest double World Champion b 29 McLaren and second stint with Renault 2007 2009 Alonso en route to victory at the 2007 Malaysian Grand Prix He and McLaren team owner Ron Dennis met secretly in Japan after Dennis talked to Alonso about driving for the team in the future and Alonso expressed interest in the idea Both men agreed to a three year contract for Alonso to drive for McLaren starting from 2007 36 37 Alonso s contract with Renault expired on 31 December 2006 and he was not granted an early release for sponsorship reasons 38 Renault allowed Alonso to make his first appearance for McLaren in a test session at the Circuito de Jerez in November 2006 38 39 His main competitors in 2007 were his teammate Lewis Hamilton and Raikkonen at Ferrari Alonso achieved four Grand Prix victories in Malaysia Monaco Europe and Italy and led the championship until Hamilton overtook him 40 Prior to the season s final round the Brazilian Grand Prix he had 103 championship points to Raikkonen s 100 and Hamilton s 107 and needed to win the race and for his teammate to finish third or lower for his third title 41 Alonso finished the event third for third overall with 109 points He had the same number of points as Hamilton the tie was broken on count back as Hamilton finished second more often than Alonso 10 42 Alonso took a controversial victory at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix after his teammate Nelson Piquet Jr was ordered to crash deliberately Throughout the season Alonso and Hamilton were involved in a number of incidents such as the espionage scandal and the flare up during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix when Hamilton disobeyed a team instruction thus disadvantaging Alonso and Alonso responded by delaying Hamilton in the pit lane 37 43 The tensions culminated in Alonso and McLaren terminating their contract by mutual consent in November 43 44 Alonso was forbidden from joining a team whom McLaren considered their primary challengers for 2008 45 After rejecting offers from several teams 46 he signed a two year contract to rejoin Renault from 2008 because of the manufacturer s long term commitment to F1 and on track record 47 48 Alonso s car lacked power early on due to an imposed moratorium in development and he scored nine points in the first seven races 27 49 He was thereafter able to improve his performance later due to aerodynamic developments to the car s and won in Singapore and Japan 27 the former race saw Renault order his teammate Nelson Piquet Jr to crash deliberately and trigger the deployment of the safety car in what became known as crashgate 10 Alonso scored more points than any other driver in the final five races with 43 49 50 He scored 61 points for fifth in the Drivers Championship 10 Alonso was due to become a free agent for 2009 if Renault were lower than third in the Constructors Championship 51 After offers from Red Bull Racing and Honda 51 52 he re signed to Renault on a two year contract 53 His car proved to be noncompetitive because it lacked a dual diffuser system and outright speed 27 54 Alonso eschewed an aerodynamic front wing mandated in an attempt to make overtaking more possible since he did not believe it would help him 10 He scored points in eight races and achieved one podium finish a third place at the Singapore Grand Prix 55 Alonso won pole position for the Hungarian Grand Prix and led the first 12 laps before he retired following an incorrectly fitted right front wheel 56 Alonso was ninth in the Drivers Championship with 26 points 10 his lowest placing since he came sixth in 2003 55 he maintained his reputation as one of F1 s best drivers 10 Ferrari 2010 2014 Alonso won on his debut with Ferrari at the 2010 Bahrain Grand Prix He agreed with Ferrari president Luca Cordero di Montezemolo to drive for Ferrari in 2009 but team principal Jean Todt extended the contracts of both Felipe Massa and Raikkonen to 2010 57 Alonso obtained a mid 2009 agreement to drive for Ferrari from 2011 on but it was moved to 2010 after Renault were investigated for race fixing in Singapore and Raikkonen was released from the team 55 58 McLaren s Hamilton and Button and Red Bull s of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber were Alonso s main championship competition 59 He won five races that season and entered the season ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix leading by eight points after being 47 behind mid season following errors Alonso finished runner up to Vettel after finishing seventh thereby losing 19 points to Vettel who won the race 60 His 2011 season was mixed his car was built conservatively and lacked aerodynamic grip and tyre handling in qualifying 61 He extracted additional pace from his car to claim ten podium finishes and win the British Grand Prix after a strategy error from Red Bull His best qualification of the year was a second at the Canadian Grand Prix and he out qualified his teammate Massa fifteen times over the course of the season Alonso was fourth overall with 257 points he was in contention to finish second to eventual champion Vettel following a series of strong finishes until Webber won the season ending Brazilian Grand Prix 10 62 Alonso at the 2012 German Grand Prix Ahead of 2012 Alonso extended his contract with Ferrari until 2016 63 His main competition for the title in 2012 was Vettel 64 Wins in Malaysia Valencia and Germany and consistent points scoring finishes allowed him to build a 40 point lead in the Drivers Championship Thereafter start line collisions a mechanical failure and an improved performance for Vettel eliminated Alonso s points lead 10 65 66 Alonso entered the season ending Brazilian Grand Prix 13 points behind Vettel and needed to finish third and for Vettel not to score points for a third championship 64 He was second and Vettel finished fourth despite spinning on the opening lap resigning Alonso to be runner up for the second time in his career on 278 points 10 66 To begin 2013 Alonso drove an aggressively designed car allowing him to win in China and Spain and consistently scored points 10 67 He was slower than Vettel after a change of tyre compound at the German Grand Prix and front and rear bodywork components intended to improve his car s performance were ineffective 67 68 With 242 points Alonso was second for the third time in his career 10 His relationship with Ferrari cooled due to his perception the team could not construct a title winning car 69 Alonso s 2014 season saw him achieve no race wins because his car was less powerful than the championship winning Mercedes but took third in the Chinese Grand Prix and second in the Hungarian Grand Prix Alonso fell to sixth in the Drivers Championship with 161 points 10 27 He qualified faster than his teammate Raikkonen 16 times by an average of more than 1 2 second per lap in 2014 69 Return to McLaren 2015 2019 Alonso had severe disagreements with team principal Marco Mattiacci in 2014 and left Ferrari after contract negotiations to remain at the team fell through 69 He rejoined McLaren on a three year contract from 2015 to 2017 with no opt out clauses 70 An accident during a pre season test session at Spain s Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya in February 2015 saw Alonso sustain a concussion and he was replaced by reserve driver Kevin Magnussen for the season opening Australian Grand Prix 71 He endured a difficult season his car s Honda engine was under powered and overall speed leaving him vulnerable to being passed 72 Alonso scored points twice in 2015 a tenth in the British Grand Prix and a fifth in the Hungarian Grand Prix for 17th in the Drivers Championship with 11 points 10 He was dissatisfied with a slow pace which became evident after multiple radio complaints that year 73 74 Alonso at the 2016 Monaco Grand Prix Despite the unreliable and noncompetitive car 75 Alonso remained with McLaren for 2016 76 Injuries from a heavy crash with Esteban Gutierrez at the season opening Australian Grand Prix caused him to miss the Bahrain Grand Prix on medical grounds and was replaced by reserve driver Stoffel Vandoorne 77 He qualified better than teammate Button fifteen times and scored points nine times which included two fifth place finishes in the Monaco Grand Prix and the United States Grand Prix He was tenth in the Drivers Championship with 54 points 10 Alonso stayed at McLaren in 2017 78 but poor reliability affected his season particularly during the early rounds and his best finish was a sixth place in the Hungarian Grand Prix After three consecutive top ten finishes Alonso finished 15th in the Drivers Championship with 17 points 10 Alonso at the 2018 Austrian Grand Prix Following contract negotiations with the McLaren CEO Zak Brown 79 Alonso signed a multi year extension with McLaren on 19 October 2017 80 He finished fifth at the season opening 2018 Australian Grand Prix and took nine top ten finishes 10 Alonso out qualified his teammate Stoffel Vandoorne at every race and drove quickly and aggressively He became increasingly annoyed with certain drivers and his commitment to F1 waned after McLaren stopped developing their car to focus on 2019 81 82 Alonso was 11th in the Drivers Championship with 50 points 10 and left the sport as a driver at the end of the 2018 season citing a perceived lack of on track racing the predictability of results and felt discussions away from racing about the broadcast of radio transmissions and polemics harmed the series 83 He remained at McLaren as a brand ambassador to aid and advise drivers and drove in select test sessions to develop their cars Alonso drove the MCL34 during a two day in season post race Bahrain test in April 2019 to develop tyres for Pirelli 84 No further runs were planned for him and McLaren focused on their current drivers 85 Alonso s ambassador contract with McLaren expired at the end of 2019 and was not renewed for 2020 86 Alpine 2021 2022 Alonso at the 2021 Austrian Grand Prix upon his return to Formula One Alonso was signed to drive for Alpine F1 Team for the 2021 season 87 alongside Esteban Ocon with Renault having rebranded the team under its new name In preparation for his F1 return Alonso performed four testing days driving the Renault R S 18 and was quickest in the post 2020 season young driver s test driving the Renault R S 20 for Renault 88 89 In his first race with Alpine at the 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix Alonso was forced to retire after plastic debris entered his brake duct 90 At the 2021 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix he finished in 11th after qualifying 15th 91 with teammate Ocon finishing ahead in tenth but both were upgraded one position after Kimi Raikkonen was penalised giving Alonso his first points of the season 92 In Hungary Alonso temporarily led the race before he made a pit stop and fell to fourth ahead of Lewis Hamilton Teammate Ocon credited Alonso s defence against Hamilton with enabling him to achieve his first race victory 93 In August 2021 Alonso invoked an option to extend his contract for the 2022 season 94 Alonso scored points in multiple races following the summer break finishing sixth in the Netherlands 95 eighth in Italy 96 sixth in Russia having run in third in Russia before being forced to pit under wet conditions 97 and third in Qatar 10 His third place finish at Qatar was his first podium finish since the 2014 Hungarian Grand Prix For the 2022 season Alonso remained with Alpine 98 Aston Martin 2023 Alonso joined Aston Martin on a multi year deal in 2023 alongside Lance Stroll 99 He joined the team because he wanted a multi year contract extension and Alpine was only willing to give him one more year in F1 100 On his Aston Martin debut at the 2023 Bahrain Grand Prix Alonso benefitting from the much improved machinery of the Aston Martin AMR23 recovered from a first lap contact with his teammate Lance Stroll without any damage and went on to finish in 3rd place securing a podium finish and Aston s first since Sebastian Vettel s podium at the 2021 Azerbaijan Grand Prix the German would finish second at the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix but would be disqualified due to insufficient fuel sample 101 Despite having to serve a penalty due to his car being off position at the starting grid he finished in third again at the following race at the 2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix this marked his 100th podium making him the sixth driver to have scored 100 podiums in his career Following the race he was issued another ten second penalty due to serving the first one improperly at his pit stop dropping him to fourth behind George Russell 102 however the team s appeal was accepted and the second penalty was reversed keeping his podium 103 Alonso finished in third once again after a choatic Australian Grand Prix the third and final restart of the session saw his car make contact with the Ferrari of Carlos Sainz Jr causing the latter driver to receive a five second penalty due to this Sainz would be classified in last place out of the finishing cars Alonso s car was undamaged 104 Alonso agreed with Sainz s criticisms of the penalty stating that it was too harsh 105 The Aston Martins were plagued with DRS issues during qualification of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix going on to qualify eighth in the new sprint shootout qualification 106 and sixth for the main qualification session 107 he would finish sixth in the sprint race 108 and fourth in the main race 109 Endurance racing Alonso made his sports car endurance racing debut at the 1999 24 Hours of Barcelona Paired with Antonio Garcia Salvi Delmuns and the journalist Pedro Fermin Flores the quartet third in the M10 class and tenth overall in a Hyundai Accent 110 Alonso was due to enter the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans with Porsche s Le Mans Prototype 1 team before Honda blocked it 111 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship 2018 2019 The Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac DPi V R driven in the 2019 24 Hours of Daytona pictured at the 2017 Petit Le Mans Alonso drove a Ligier JS P217 entered by United Autosports in the 2018 24 Hours of Daytona as preparation for the 24 Hours of Le Mans 112 Alonso Philip Hanson and McLaren reserve driver Lando Norris qualified 13th and finished 38th after multiple mechanical issues affected the car during the race 113 Alonso returned to race in the 2019 24 Hours of Daytona with Wayne Taylor Racing He shared a Cadillac DPi V R with Kamui Kobayashi Renger van der Zande and Jordan Taylor The quartet completed 593 laps to win the rain shortened event 114 FIA World Endurance Championship 2018 2019 Alonso driving a Toyota TS050 Hybrid at the 2018 6 Hours of Silverstone Brown discussed an entry for the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans with Alonso and was prepared to consent to a switch to another team if certain circumstances were met 115 Alonso and Toyota held talks and agreed to compete in the 24 Hours of Le Mans 116 He visited Toyota s factory in Cologne for a seat fitting in a TS050 Hybrid in November 2017 117 Toyota entered Alonso into a post season rookie test at the Bahrain International Circuit later that month 118 In January 2018 McLaren and Toyota reached an agreement to allow Alonso to enter the full 2018 19 FIA World Endurance Championship c 120 He joined Sebastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima in Toyota s No 8 TS050 Hybrid 119 Alonso driving at the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans Alonso drove a 2018 TS050 Hybrid in a three day test session at the Ciudad del Motor de Aragon in February and drove with no artificial lights in a 24 hour kart race as preparation 121 122 He Buemi and Nakajima won the LMP1 Drivers Championship with five victories including the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans over the eight round season though this was enhanced by their teammates Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi and Jose Maria Lopez suffering a sensor issue while leading the 2019 6 Hours of Spa and then suffering a puncture while comfortably leading the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans with an hour remaining 10 123 124 125 126 Alonso left the series at the end of the season 127 IndyCar Series Alonso s car prior to the 2017 Indianapolis 500 McLaren Honda Andretti 2017 Before the 2017 Australian Grand Prix Zak Brown said to Alonso they should enter the 2017 Indianapolis 500 to which Alonso suggested he was joking The idea later re emerged in a conservation in Los Angeles and Alonso told Brown he was happy with the idea since McLaren had won it before He and his manager Garcia Abad met Brown and Eric Boullier in China to talk more about the plan and said he would decide the next day Alonso told Brown he wanted to race at Indianapolis and told him it was a good decision for everyone a win win for myself for F1 the fans everyone 128 Brown then spoke to the IndyCar Series chief executive officer Mark Miles and discovered that there were no Honda powered cars 129 Miles met the Andretti Autosport owner Michael Andretti who got driver Stefan Wilson to agree to forego his planned entry in partnership with Michael Shank Racing and allow Alonso to drive instead 130 Driving the No 29 McLaren Honda Andretti Dallara DW12 131 he completed a three stage rookie orientation programme at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on 3 May d 133 Alonso advanced to the Fast Nine shootout in qualifying and set the fifth fastest four lap average speed 134 in the race he led four times for a total of 27 laps before his engine failed with 21 laps to go 134 Alonso was classified 24th 135 McLaren Racing 2019 Alonso at the 2019 Indianapolis 500 McLaren began planning an entry for him in the 2019 IndyCar Series in August 2018 and would be supported by the series 136 Alonso tested a 2018 specification Andretti Autosport entered Dallara DW12 Honda at the Barber Motorsports Park on 5 September 137 McLaren opted to enter just the 2019 Indianapolis 500 due to its focus on Formula One and collaborated with Carlin Motorsport in a logistical and technical partnership and signed an engine supply deal with Chevrolet 138 Alonso ventured to the McLaren Technology Centre in early March 2019 for a seat fitting to become comfortable in the No 66 Dallara IR18 Chevrolet and its brake pedal was shifted away from his feet since it is used less in IndyCar than in Formula One Andy Brown was Alonso s race engineer and his chief mechanic was Liam Dance 139 Alonso did not qualify after Juncos Racing s Kyle Kaiser demoted him to 34th e Reasons included a dismantled spare car needed to assembled and flown from Carlin s factory after Alonso crashed in practice An error converting from the American imperial system to the British metric system caused his car to scrape along the tarmac surface and incorrect gear ratios slowed him 141 Arrow McLaren SP 2020 He entered the 2020 Indianapolis 500 with Arrow McLaren SP after an agreement with Andretti Autosports fell through 142 Alonso had a crash during practice He qualified 26th 143 Alonso did manage to finish the race He started 26th was running 15th halfway through the race and then ended up P21 and one lap down because of a clutch issue causing the team to manually start the car during every pit stop 144 Off road racing Alonso entered the Dakar Rally with Toyota in 2020 following a five month testing programme in Africa Europe and the Middle East and driving a series of races to better himself 145 146 He raced in the Lichtenburg 400 in South Africa the Rally du Maroc in Morocco and the Al Ula Neom Rally in Saudi Arabia 147 with the five time Dakar Rally bike class winner Marc Coma his co driver Alonso was third at the Al Ula Neom Rally which was his highest finish in three preparation events 148 With co driver Coma he finished the Dakar in 13th position with a best stage finish of second place 149 A stop for repairs on the second stage and a roll on the tenth lost him several hours in the general classification 150 Driving styleThe essence of his qualities is that he is very complete You struggle to find a weak point basically in terms of high level skills The technical preparation in terms of driving The ability to cope with a variety of situations Intelligence just the capacity to understand the situation while he is in or out of the car Commitment it is so difficult for Fernando to accept he is slower than someone else It is very essential to his nature which potentially might have created problems when he was not mature enough to manage this fundamental aspect of his identity I have seen this with Michael Schumacher This aspect of Fernando is certainly not less than Michael but it expresses itself in different ways Alonso s race engineer at Ferrari Andrea Stella on Alonso s ability and similarities to Michael Schumacher 151 Alonso is often regarded as one of the greatest F1 drivers in the history of the sport 152 Journalists and fellow drivers regarded Alonso as a fast and consistent driver who can extract additional pace from a car in all weathers and on all tracks 151 153 Fisichella said Alonso understands when to go faster and when to preserve his tyres in a race 153 Former racing driver and Sky Sports pundit Martin Brundle described Alonso as Senna like in his intimate feel for where the grip is and cited the driver s knowledge on how much grip to use for the entry to a turn 153 He drives aggressively and uses a braking area to put a car into a corner without losing speed exiting it This allows Alonso to keep it on the edge of adhesion and it has been observed during a qualifying session and the first laps of a race 13 1979 world champion Jody Scheckter has criticised Alonso for causing problems in teams clarification needed 154 This opinion is shared by Christian Horner who ruled out signing Alonso for Red Bull as he caused chaos in previous teams 155 Alonso s experience increased his awareness of events around him and competitors in a race and adjusted his situation to focus on the drivers championship 156 Alonso is an all round driver who can mount an apex and correct a sliding car to go faster 157 He is careful in finding the ideal feeling with his brakes and can apply the maximum amount of force with a fast response time Alonso s physical strength contrasts his braking skill and regularly exceeded that limit without overdoing it on multiple conditions 158 According to Jonathan Noble of Motorsport com this allows Alonso to create a kind of natural ABS fully exploiting tyre grip to achieve greater speeds while turning without locking the wheels 158 Helmet and career number Alonso s Arai helmet used during the 2005 Formula One season Alonso s helmet manufactured by Bieffe 2001 Arai 2003 2009 2016 Schuberth 2010 2015 159 160 Bell 2017 161 sports the yellow and red colours of the flag of Spain with shades of blue from the Asturias flag coupled with two silver thunderbolt arrows derived from a remote control car he received as a present in his childhood on top 162 He changed its mainbase colour design when switching teams during his F1 career in 2008 Alonso attached two pictures of a spade ace and heart symbol to show he was a two time world champion 163 The racing helmet Alonso wore at the 2013 Indian Grand Prix to commemorate him scoring 1571 career points For three successive Monaco Grand Prix from 2011 to 2013 and at the 2011 Singapore Grand Prix he wore a gold and white coloured helmet to replace the blue and yellow 164 165 At the following 2013 Indian Grand Prix Alonso sported a white helmet to celebrate his total number of career points scored up to the preceding Japanese Grand Prix of 1571 and with the words F1 points World Record accompanied with a thank you message in English French and Italian 166 His final event for Ferrari at the 2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix saw him wear a helmet with a picture depicting a pit stop in that year in the colour red signature of various team members and the flag of Italy in the centre 167 At the 2017 Indianapolis 500 and the 2017 United States Grand Prix Alonso sported a black helmet with red yellow and blue stripes around it and his race number 168 169 He revised the livery for the 2018 24 Hours of Daytona to white instead of black and had no stripes around the front The back had the layout of the Daytona International Speedway and continued to have his usual blue red and yellow colours 168 In 2018 Alonso changed its front livery to be predominantly blue with the back top lighter blue and the rear red and yellow 170 His helmet for the 2018 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was divided equally between the flag of Spain on the right with a blue checkered pattern around its side The yellow on that area was replaced by gold between two horizontal stripes in red and a thick vertical strip was added with a list of Alonso s 32 F1 race victories 171 For the 2014 season the FIA created a new regulation allowing drivers to select specific car numbers for use throughout their F1 career Alonso requested the number 14 for it has been his lucky number since his world karting championship victory in a kart with number 14 at the age of 14 on 14 July 1996 172 Image and impactNate Saunders of ESPN writes that Alonso is one of the most eloquent speakers in F1 and one of the best at interacting with the media 173 He occasionally uses press conferences with the press to cultivate particular narratives of a story convey himself as controlling the F1 driver market or as the one with knowledge of facts of a situation 173 Alonso dislikes fame and prefers a private life 174 with Chris Jenkins of USA Today describing him as shy 3 He has been noted for refraining from expensive habits and possessions 175 Alonso at the 2015 Honda Racing Thanks Day Alonso s public persona has been noted as being different from his private personality 176 Fellow Spanish driver Carlos Sainz Jr claimed there are two Fernandos alluding to Alonso s defensive nature when criticised because of his shyness compared to his sense of humour generosity and kind nature when not racing 176 According to the Autosport journalist Ben Anderson Alonso s success in F1 required him to behave egotistically and selfishly and to have a self confidence in order to cope with the consequences of burst ing egotistical bubbles to improve himself 176 Alonso acknowledged the facade and told Anderson I know who I am outside of F1 but that remains a question mark for everybody because I like to separate my personal life from my professional life and his different personality traits in public and private 176 Alonso made a voice cameo appearance as an anthropomorphic version of himself in the Spanish dub of Cars 2 2011 177 and a voice command assistant in the Spanish dub of Cars 3 2017 178 Journalist Nigel Roebuck calls Alonso the first world class racing driver to come out of Spain 174 and is credited for popularising F1 in the country where it was once considered a fringe sport and a lesser known form of motorsport than motorcycling and rallying 179 He was Personality Media s favourite male athlete with a 99 per cent recognition rating amongst the Spanish public in 2015 180 in the latter part of his F1 career Alonso was within the top two most popular drivers in the Grand Prix Drivers Association fan surveys of 2010 2015 and 2017 181 The Fernando Alonso Sports Complex in Oviedo was opened in June 2015 and features a CIK FIA compliant karting track featuring 29 layouts A museum dedicated to his racing career the Museo y Circuito Fernando Alonso opened in the same year featuring Alonso s race cars helmets overalls and memorabilia 182 Endorsements and philanthropy Alonso wearing a Kimoa hat at a NASCAR media tour in 2018 Alonso has done business with Banco Santander Cajastur TAG Heuer Europcar Silestone 183 Liberbank 184 ING 185 Chandon 186 Adidas 187 and Bang amp Olufsen 188 He is the founder and brand ambassador of the fashion retailer Kimoa 189 and intended to establish the Fernando Alonso Cycling Team to compete in UCI events in 2015 before the project failed to materialise f 190 As a result of Alonso s endorsement money and F1 salary he has been listed as one of the world s highest paid athletes by Forbes every year from 2012 to 2018 191 The magazine named him motorsport s top earning driver from June 2012 to June 2013 192 one of 2016 s top earning international stars 193 and one of 2017 s highest paid international and European celebrities 194 195 Alonso also featured on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list in 2008 and 2017 196 In 2020 Alonso was sponsored by Ruoff Mortgage for his Indianapolis 500 attempt 197 In November 2017 Alonso established the FA Racing G2 Logitech G eSports racing team of which he is the team principal and competes in virtual online racing championships on multiple platforms 198 The team dissolved in 2018 and launched another in partnership with FA Racing and Veloce Esports in March 2019 199 Alonso s team has also competed in the F4 Spanish Championship Formula Renault Eurocup and karting 200 He is an investor and board member of the eSports multi racing platform Motorsport Games 201 The UNICEF Spanish Committee named Alonso a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in February 2005 to promote and defend children s rights and awareness of UNICEF 202 Alonso promoted India s efforts to eradicate polio in 2011 and handwashing with soap to school children in 2012 203 204 whilst he also supported UNICEF s anti cyberbullying campaign in November 2017 205 Alonso founded the Fundacion Fernando Alonso transl Fernando Alonso Foundation in 2007 to promote motor racing and road safety education 164 Awards Alonso received the 2003 Autosport Gregor Grant Award for winning the 2003 Hungarian Grand Prix 206 He also won the Princess Cristina National Sports Award for sporting newcomer in that year 207 Alonso was named the Lorenzo Bandini Trophy s recipient in April 2005 208 From October 2005 to May 2006 he received the Prince of Asturias Award for Sports the Premios Nacionales del Deporte Sportsman of the Year Award and the Gold Medal of the Royal Order of Sports Merit for winning the 2005 F1 World Championship 209 He was named the 2006 Autosport International Racing Driver of the Year 210 Alonso was voted the Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year for his performance in the 2017 Indianapolis 500 135 He was inducted into the FIA Hall of Fame in 2017 for being a F1 World Champion and again as a FIA World Endurance Champion in 2019 211 212 This made Alonso the first driver to have been inducted into the FIA Hall of Fame twice 212 Personal lifeFrom November 2006 to December 2011 Alonso was married to Raquel del Rosario the lead singer of the Spanish pop band El Sueno de Morfeo 213 He was engaged to Spanish television presenter Lara Alvarez from 2015 to 2016 214 Alonso dated Italian model Linda Morselli from 2016 to 2021 215 216 Alonso supports the Real Madrid and Real Oviedo football teams 7 and is a cycling enthusiast 217 He is 174 cm 5 9 tall 218 and speaks English French Italian and Spanish 219 His personal garage includes such cars as the McLaren P1 Ferrari 458 Italia Nissan GT R and Honda NSX 220 221 222 Karting recordKarting career summary Season Series Position1991 Spanish Championship Cadet 2nd1993 Spanish Championship Junior 1st1994 Torneo delle Industrie 100 Junior 28thSpanish Championship Junior 1st1995 Trofeo Andrea Margutti 100 Junior 19thRainbow Trophy Cadets 3rdSpanish Championship Junior 1st1996 Torneo delle Industrie 100 Nazionale 28thFive Continents Cup Junior A 1stTrofeo Andrea Margutti 100 Junior 15th1997 Trofeo Andrea Margutti ICA 4th1998 Trofeo Andrea Margutti Formula A 7thEuropean Championship Formula A 2ndWorld Championship Formula A 26th1999 Trofeo Andrea Margutti Formula A 5thEuropean Championship Formula Super A 18thWorld Championship Formula Super A 19thSource 223 Racing recordRacing career summary Season Series Team Races Wins Poles FLaps Podiums Points Position1999 Euro Open by Nissan Campos Motorsport 15 6 6 5 8 164 1st2000 International Formula 3000 Team Astromega 9 1 1 2 2 17 4th2001 Formula One European Minardi F1 17 0 0 0 0 0 23rd2002 Formula One Mild Seven Renault F1 Team Test driver2003 Formula One Mild Seven Renault F1 Team 16 1 2 1 4 55 6th2004 Formula One Mild Seven Renault F1 Team 18 0 1 0 4 59 4th2005 Formula One Mild Seven Renault F1 Team 19 7 6 2 15 133 1st2006 Formula One Mild Seven Renault F1 Team 18 7 6 5 14 134 1st2007 Formula One Vodafone McLaren Mercedes 17 4 2 3 12 109 3rd2008 Formula One ING Renault F1 Team 18 2 0 0 3 61 5th2009 Formula One ING Renault F1 Team 17 0 1 2 1 26 9th2010 Formula One Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro 19 5 2 5 10 252 2nd2011 Formula One Scuderia Ferrari 19 1 0 1 10 257 4th2012 Formula One Scuderia Ferrari 20 3 2 0 13 278 2nd2013 Formula One Scuderia Ferrari 19 2 0 2 9 242 2nd2014 Formula One Scuderia Ferrari 19 0 0 0 2 161 6th2015 Formula One McLaren Honda 18 0 0 0 0 11 17th2016 Formula One McLaren Honda 20 0 0 1 0 54 10th2017 Formula One McLaren Honda 19 0 0 1 0 17 15thIndyCar Series McLaren Honda Andretti 1 0 0 0 0 47 29th2018 Formula One McLaren F1 Team 21 0 0 0 0 50 11th24 Hours of Le Mans Toyota Gazoo Racing 1 1 1 0 1 N A 1stWeatherTech SportsCar Championship United Autosports 1 0 0 0 0 18 58th2018 19 FIA World Endurance Championship Toyota Gazoo Racing 8 5 4 0 7 198 1st2019 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Konica Minolta Cadillac 1 1 0 0 1 35 27th24 Hours of Le Mans Toyota Gazoo Racing 1 1 0 0 1 N A 1stIndyCar Series McLaren Racing 0 0 0 0 0 0 NC2020 Dakar Rally Toyota Gazoo Racing 1 0 N A 0 N A 13thIndyCar Series Arrow McLaren SP 1 0 0 0 0 18 31st2021 Formula One Alpine F1 Team 22 0 0 0 1 81 10th2022 Formula One BWT Alpine F1 Team 22 0 0 0 0 81 9th2023 Formula One Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant F1 Team 5 0 0 0 4 75 3rd Source 10 Season still in progress Complete Euro Open by Nissan results key Races in bold indicate pole position races in italics indicate fastest lap Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 DC Points1999 Campos Motorsport ALB1Ret ALB21 JER1Ret JER2DNS JAR1Ret JAR21 MNZ1Ret MNZ2Ret JAR12 JAR2Ret DON11 DON21 CAT17 CAT21 VAL12 VAL21 1st 164Source 224 Complete International Formula 3000 results key Races in bold indicate pole position races in italics indicate fastest lap Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 DC Points2000 Team Astromega IMO9 SILEX CAT15 NURRet MON8 MAGRet A1R6 HOCRet HUN2 SPA1 4th 17Source 225 Complete Formula One results key Races in bold indicate pole position races in italics indicate fastest lap small number indicates the finishing position Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 WDC Points2001 European Minardi F1 Minardi PS01 European Cosworth 3 0 V10 AUS12 MAL13 BRARet SMRRet ESP13 AUTRet MONRet CANRet EUR14 FRA17 GBR16 GER10 HUNRet 23rd 0Minardi PS01B BELDNS ITA13 USARet JPN112003 Mild Seven Renault F1 Team Renault R23 Renault RS23 3 0 V10 AUS7 MAL3 BRA3 SMR6 ESP2 AUTRet MON5 CAN4 EUR4 FRARet 6th 55Renault R23B GBRRet GER4 HUN1 ITA8 USARet JPNRet2004 Mild Seven Renault F1 Team Renault R24 Renault RS24 3 0 V10 AUS3 MAL7 BHR6 SMR4 ESP4 MONRet EUR5 CANRet USARet FRA2 GBR10 GER3 HUN3 BELRet ITARet CHN4 JPN5 BRA4 4th 592005 Mild Seven Renault F1 Team Renault R25 Renault RS25 3 0 V10 AUS3 MAL1 BHR1 SMR1 ESP2 MON4 EUR1 CANRet USADNS FRA1 GBR2 GER1 HUN11 TUR2 ITA2 BEL2 BRA3 JPN3 CHN1 1st 1332006 Mild Seven Renault F1 Team Renault R26 Renault RS26 2 4 V8 BHR1 MAL2 AUS1 SMR2 EUR2 ESP1 MON1 GBR1 CAN1 USA5 FRA2 GER5 HUNRet TUR2 ITARet CHN2 JPN1 BRA2 1st 1342007 Vodafone McLaren Mercedes McLaren MP4 22 Mercedes FO 108T 2 4 V8 AUS2 MAL1 BHR5 ESP3 MON1 CAN7 USA2 FRA7 GBR2 EUR1 HUN4 TUR3 ITA1 BEL3 JPNRet CHN2 BRA3 3rd 1092008 ING Renault F1 Team Renault R28 Renault RS27 2 4 V8 AUS4 MAL8 BHR10 ESPRet TUR6 MON10 CANRet FRA8 GBR6 GER11 HUN4 EURRet BEL4 ITA4 SIN1 JPN1 CHN4 BRA2 5th 612009 ING Renault F1 Team Renault R29 Renault RS27 2 4 V8 AUS5 MAL11 CHN9 BHR8 ESP5 MON7 TUR10 GBR14 GER7 HUNRet EUR6 BELRet ITA5 9th 26Renault F1 Team SIN3 JPN10 BRARet ABU142010 Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro Ferrari F10 Ferrari 056 2 4 V8 BHR1 AUS4 MAL13 CHN4 ESP2 MON6 TUR8 CAN3 EUR8 GBR14 GER1 HUN2 BELRet ITA1 SIN1 JPN3 KOR1 BRA3 ABU7 2nd 2522011 Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro Ferrari 150º Italia Ferrari 056 2 4 V8 AUS4 MAL6 CHN7 TUR3 ESP5 MON2 CANRet EUR2 4th 257Scuderia Ferrari GBR1 GER2 HUN3 BEL4 ITA3 SIN4 JPN2 KOR5 IND3 ABU2 BRA42012 Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari F2012 Ferrari 056 2 4 V8 AUS5 MAL1 CHN9 BHR7 ESP2 MON3 CAN5 EUR1 GBR2 GER1 HUN5 BELRet ITA3 SIN3 JPNRet KOR3 IND2 ABU2 USA3 BRA2 2nd 2782013 Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari F138 Ferrari 056 2 4 V8 AUS2 MALRet CHN1 BHR8 ESP1 MON7 CAN2 GBR3 GER4 HUN5 BEL2 ITA2 SIN2 KOR6 JPN4 IND11 ABU5 USA5 BRA3 2nd 2422014 Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari F14 T Ferrari 059 3 1 6 V6 t AUS4 MAL4 BHR9 CHN3 ESP6 MON4 CAN6 AUT5 GBR6 GER5 HUN2 BEL7 ITARet SIN4 JPNRet RUS6 USA6 BRA6 ABU9 6th 1612015 McLaren Honda McLaren MP4 30 Honda RA615H 1 6 V6 t AUS MALRet CHN12 BHR11 ESPRet MONRet CANRet AUTRet GBR10 HUN5 BEL13 ITA18 SINRet JPN11 RUS11 USA11 MEXRet BRA15 ABU17 17th 112016 McLaren Honda McLaren MP4 31 Honda RA616H 1 6 V6 t AUSRet BHR CHN12 RUS6 ESPRet MON5 CAN11 EURRet AUT18 GBR13 HUN7 GER12 BEL7 ITA14 SIN7 MAL7 JPN16 USA5 MEX13 BRA10 ABU10 10th 542017 McLaren Honda McLaren MCL32 Honda RA617H 1 6 V6 t AUSRet CHNRet BHR14 RUSDNS ESP12 MON CAN16 AZE9 AUTRet GBRRet HUN6 BELRet ITA17 SINRet MAL11 JPN11 USARet MEX10 BRA8 ABU9 15th 172018 McLaren F1 Team McLaren MCL33 Renault R E 18 1 6 V6 t AUS5 BHR7 CHN7 AZE7 ESP8 MONRet CANRet FRA16 AUT8 GBR8 GER16 HUN8 BELRet ITARet SIN7 RUS14 JPN14 USARet MEXRet BRA17 ABU11 11th 502021 Alpine F1 Team Alpine A521 Renault E Tech 20B 1 6 V6 t BHRRet EMI10 POR8 ESP17 MON13 AZE6 FRA8 STY9 AUT10 GBR7 HUN4 BEL11 NED6 ITA8 RUS6 TUR16 USARet MXC9 SAP9 QAT3 SAU13 ABU8 10th 812022 BWT Alpine F1 Team Alpine A522 Renault E Tech 22 1 6 V6 t BHR9 SAURet AUS17 EMIRet MIA11 ESP9 MON7 AZE7 CAN9 GBR5 AUT10 FRA6 HUN8 BEL5 NED6 ITARet SINRet JPN7 USA7 MXC19 SAP5 ABURet 9th 812023 Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant F1 Team Aston Martin AMR23 Mercedes F1 M14 E Performance 1 6 V6 t BHR3 SAU3 AUS3 AZE46 MIA3 EMI MON ESP CAN AUT GBR HUN BEL NED ITA SIN JPN QAT USA MXC SAP LVG ABU 3rd 75 Source 226 Did not finish but was classified as he had completed more than 90 of the race distance Season still in progress American open wheel racing results IndyCar Series Year Team Chassis No Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Rank Points2017 McLaren Honda Andretti Dallara DW12 29 Honda STP LBH ALA PHX IMS INDY24 DET DET TXS RDA IOW TOR MDO POC GTW WGL SNM 29th 472019 McLaren Racing 66 Chevrolet STP COA ALA LBH IMS INDYDNQ DET DET TXS RDA TOR IOW MDO POC GTW POR LAG 02020 Arrow McLaren SP TXS IMS ROA ROA IOW IOW INDY21 GTW GTW MDO MDO IMS IMS STP 31st 18Source 227 Indianapolis 500 Year Chassis Engine Start Finish Team2017 Dallara Honda 5 24 McLaren Honda Andretti2019 Dallara Chevrolet DNQ McLaren Racing2020 Dallara Chevrolet 26 21 Arrow McLaren SPSource 227 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship key Races in bold indicate pole position races in italics indicate fastest lap Year Team Class Make Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rank Points2018 United Autosports P Ligier JS P217 Gibson GK428 4 2 L V8 DAY13 SEB LBH MDO DET WGL MOS ELK LGA PET 58th 182019 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi Cadillac DPi V R Cadillac 5 5 L V8 DAY1 SEB LBH MDO DET WGL MOS ELK LGA PET 27th 35Source 228 229 24 Hours of Daytona Year Team Co drivers Car Class Laps Pos ClassPos 2018 United Autosports Philip Hanson Lando Norris Ligier JS P217 Gibson P 718 38th 13th2019 Konica Minolta Cadillac Kamui Kobayashi Jordan Taylor Renger van der Zande Cadillac DPi V R DPi 593 1st 1stSource 229 Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results key Races in bold indicate pole position races in italics indicate fastest lap Year Entrant Class Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Rank Points2018 19 Toyota Gazoo Racing LMP1 Toyota TS050 Hybrid Toyota 2 4 L Turbo V6 Hybrid SPA1 LMS1 SILDSQ FUJ2 SHA2 SEB1 SPA1 LMS1 1st 198Source 229 230 24 Hours of Le Mans results Year Team Co Drivers Car Class Laps Pos ClassPos 2018 Toyota Gazoo Racing Sebastien Buemi Kazuki Nakajima Toyota TS050 Hybrid LMP1 388 1st 1st2019 Toyota Gazoo Racing Sebastien Buemi Kazuki Nakajima Toyota TS050 Hybrid LMP1 385 1st 1stSource 229 Dakar Rally results Year Class Vehicle Position Stages won2020 Car Toyota 13th 0Source 149 Records held He broke the record for the longest distance covered in F1 with a total of 92 643 Kilometers driven after his fifth place finish in the 2022 British Grand Prix 231 Notes and referencesNotes Giao filed an appeal under the belief Alonso had passed him under yellow flag conditions The appeal was rejected because Giao had filed it through his manager and not his team officials subsequently confirmed Alonso s championship win 21 a b Sebastian Vettel is the current holder of the youngest Formula One pole position starter and youngest one and two time world champion 29 The owners of the Fuji Speedway which organised the 6 Hours of Fuji had a request granted for its race to be moved back by a week to allow Alonso to compete in the event and avoid a date clash with the 2018 United States Grand Prix 119 More than two million watched a livestream of the rookie orientation programme on social media 132 McLaren offered to purchase the Arrow Schmidt Peterson car of Oriol Servia to allow Alonso to enter the race and meet sponsorship obligations since the two teams were in a partnership Alonso was against replacing a driver who had qualified and McLaren opted against doing so 140 The leaked Paradise Papers stated Alonso s manager Luis Garcia Abad founded and constituted the Revolution Holdings Limited for the team on the Mediterranean island of Malta Documents released to the Spanish media revealed the Directorate General for the Treasury knew about its existence and accounts 190 References Fernando Alonso signs to Aston Martin for 2023 on multi year contract formula1 com 1 August 2022 Archived from the original on 1 August 2022 Retrieved 1 August 2022 a b c d e f g h i j k Donaldson Gerald Fernando Alonso 2005 2006 Formula1 com Archived from the original on 3 May 2019 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